Mule

i think his name was leonard

he been shot nine times

across from my front window

across the front lines

one more story one more boy on the back page

tracking all the numbers

of brothers killing brothers

and then charge by the grave

i come from the town

that suspended two cops

when a killer raped a boy

and stuffed him in a box

then two years later

when they thought we forgot

said "he was just a crazy queer

reinstate them cops"

you cannot rise above

your own level of consciousness

any prejudice reflects

a lack of willingness

to grow to change

to grow to change

change starts here

change starts here