By Patrick Connors
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.
It was their final, most essential command.” - George Orwell, 1984
Renee Nicole Good was a citizen of the United States.
She was a wife, a mother, a poet, and a human being.
On January 7th, she engaged in civil disobedience.
She idled her car crossways and blocked two lanes.
An ICE agent approached the left front of her car.
She said, “That’s fine, dude. I’m not mad at you.”
He advanced on her, recording with his cell phone.
She reversed, turning left, as she tried to get away.
If she had been trying to run him over, she would
have turned right in reverse, then turned hard left.
She turned left in reverse to get the open space
to turn right. The ICE agent shot her three times.
He shot her point blank, turned and walked away,
called her a hateful name for all the world to hear.
On an icy Minneapolis street, in broad daylight,
Renee Nicole Good was murdered in cold blood.
*This poem is also in Where Words Defeat Bullets, published last week on Asemana Books, and available on Amazon and Lulu.
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