Table of Contents
I Am the Rage 1
Forever Lost between Sunlight and Shadow (for Breonna) 5
Motivated Forgetting 9
Human Enough 11
Navigating This Hazardous Terrain 15
Benediction Number 9 17
There Is Too Little Time 20
America's Postpartum Depression 22
In My Rearview Mirror 24
America's Music 28
Numb to the News 30
Rhetoric 35
We Still Stand (Noble and Proud) 37
A Shocking New Race War 39
How Could We Not Have Appreciated That 42
Why We Beat Our Children 47
A New Song 50
Not Again 52
Be Careful What You Ask of Me 54
Traffic Stop 56
How You Hate to Rape Me 61
Tale of Two Georges 65
America, Something Is Wrong 68
Juneteenth 71
We Are Alike, You and I 75
BIPOC 78
Spoken Words Fail Me But… 80
Cultural Upheaval 82
Today, I Cannot… 83
What Sadness We Carry in Ordinary Times 88
Acknowledgments 93
About the Author 95