Russell Streur- A Poem

REMOTE CONTROL

The remote control malfunctions

And before Big Data

Can conference in the network heads

The screens go blank on Marietta Street

And the lights go out on Eighth

And the anchors and the sirens

Fall mute on Fleet

And the gates of Black Beach open

And the gates of Diyarbakir open

And the gates of Tadmor open

And the gates of Shatta Prison open

And the drones stop falling from the sky

And the suicide bombs fail to explode

And Sundiata Acoli goes free

And Alexandra  Dukhanina goes

And Mumia Abu Jamal goes free

The person unknown

Returns from the wilderness

And the batteries go dead

On the powers that be.