Black Lives Matter: Reminders

The best action
 we can take to honor
 Breonna Taylor
 is to vote.
 The best action
 we can take to honor
 George Floyd,
 and so many other
 murdered
 Black lives,
 is to vote.

To the person
 who removed
 the “Black”
 from the “lives matter”
 and “Defund the”
 from the “police”
 etchings
 on the local tree:

How do we
 have a discussion
 on systemic racism
 if you wordlessly
 eliminate the parts
 of the equation that matter?

At least,
 we can
 agree on love.
 But mere
 “love”
 will never bring
 Breonna Taylor back.
 Justice
 has not been
 served.

Diann Leo-Omine was born and raised in San Francisco (Ohlone land). She now resides in the North Central Valley (Nisenan land), between the expanse of ocean but before the ascent of mountains. Her writing is influenced by her experiences on the trails and professional kitchens.

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