Ugly

This is the ugliest poem
What do you call a poem
That announces Sabriya McLean
Was made a was
Because she met
Twenty-three years old
Cole Swaringer - Herring
On Facebook

He was-ed Sabriya by stabbing her
Eighty times
Then he set her on fire

And this isn't about me
Except it is
How do I as a poet
Similie her black body back to life
What good is anybody's
Black girl magic
When it won't let Sabriya see
Her sixteenth birthday

What good is the world when
Her body is behind his parent's home
Waiting
Dead and stabbed and burned
And waiting

Now a black man wishes he were only
In Facebook jail
Now we wish we could un once upon a time this time
Now Sabriya's parents want a do over
Now nothing makes sense

Not the tears
Not the grief
Not the whys
Not this ugly poem

Nothing

Except this isn't about you either
Except it is
What part of
A black man stabbed a black girl
Then burned her body
And this ugly belongs to all of us now
Are we not getting

What kind of world is that this is news
That this is family business
What happens when we haven't even dried these tears
And another is killed and carved and burned
What about then

What about all that ugly then