27 Bullets for Tyisha Shenee Miller

Riverside, CA (Associated Poets)

• how does the LAPD perform emergency medical procedures?
• is 19 and it is 3 days after Christmas
• pulls into a gas station with a flat tire
• summons her family for assistance
• is found by her family having a seizure in the car
• a gun on her lap
• under no circumstances, summon the LAPD
• is found by the police catatonic
• her car locked her engine running
• does not respond to their shouted instructions
• is awakened by five policemen breaking the window of her vehicle
• is said to have raised the gun
• is opened fire upon
• acted no more nor was acted upon no more
• "...as she sat locked in a car with a gun, and black leaders and family members..."
• the LAPD is larger than most country's armies
• in French tour guides, with regard to Los Angeles:
• "Under no circumstances ask the police for directions."
• Tyisha Shenee Miller
• Rodney King
• and those who died unable to report the brutality
• and those afraid to
• and those who weren't citizens
• and those who never learned they had rights
• those on whose back Hollywood is paved
• it is as simple as black and white
• 27 bullets in Riverside California