To Mayor Mike Rawlings’s Task Force on Confederate Monuments
Code switching is undetectable through tinted windows. Little girls
double step until they surpass their mothers, but never feel safe in
Kessler Park. The bridge to nowhere twirls her skirt over the current
underflowing of the Trinity River. In ten years, they say those banks
will rival Central Park abracadabra: Alta West, Sylvan my 30. Truth
is, monument or not, somewhere on Commerce, before things go
really west, from state-to-statue-to statute,
Lew Sterrett’s Justice Center
omnipresently swallows the
whole
damn
trifecta.
