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"Garner Verdict Night."

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So there's a couple of visual
poems in "that's what you get."

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And I'm moving towards
more visual things

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because I'm a slave
to this phone.

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And yeah, so there's
a few of these.

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And you know, I'm a slave to all
the things, the video things.

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Garner verdict night,
December 3, 2014,

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from Monica Hand,
who's gone now.

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Great poet.

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1.

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Meeting the march at
50th and Broadway.

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Dropped grading papers

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soon as I heard: I had more

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to teach by walking.

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Marching was mourning.

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I felt I knew him, neighbors

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from remote ghettos,

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like someone I grew

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up with, surrounded by
white ethnics in the sticks.

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His video ghost

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told me, there was no question.

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I had to be there.

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2.

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Sit-in at Columbus Circle.

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We sat down in a

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crosswalk, Christmas
lights of the

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luxury mall winking.

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This couldn't be done

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under Bloomberg, he corralled,

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blocked, barricaded,

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had people believing

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they had to ask permission

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to protest, to breathe.

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Never felt more of this

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city than when I took

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my place on that road.

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I can see better this way.

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3.

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Between the buses down 9th.

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Against traffic, down

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wide Manhattan Avenue,

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eyes and back of our heads,

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many marchers the
age of my students.

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I fell back to watch them move,

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was solo among groups
of various sizes,

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could observe, weave, join,

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break, let one know where

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the other was.

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If they were

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lost, coming apart.

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4.

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Flag on West Side Highway.

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There have been honking

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in solidarity on

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the previous block.

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But here, we waited

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a river of cars, the size of

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what was gone.

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a police wall met

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us, shields and helmets,

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outfit of control.

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Before at our own

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river of bodies waved, pulsed,

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chanting his last words.

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