Z60.5/(En)Coded

Abstract

their children wear our jerseys [they race adjust our brains]1 they think we need attitude adjustment they settle for statistical adjustment2 they can't control for justice they can't control our edges our knees (their knees) [they race adjust our lungs]3?6 our hips (their hips) our fists our mouths our lips on their daughters their daughters on TikTok their sons on sigs, glocks their silence __________ _________ our matter our matters our mattering [they race adjust our pain]7?9 they can't control our anger they think they know our rage they settle they: settler they: eyes our streets our parks our schools our playgrounds our grounds our play our joy unfiltered [they race adjust our blood]9?14 our names they don't pronounce they squiggly red line our names they redlined our streets they raced to scrub our names from rivers from mountains from lakes from stars from murals [they race adjust our homes]15?17 they search to find our magic our glow our radiance they say they do not see they look right through us [they race adjust our bones]18 their hands held the compass the maps the pens the gavels the glocks the signs in Little Rock ? their children love our dances their faces look the same their cameras track our faces their mothers don't feel safe our mothers: open casket our faces make front page our fathers fit descriptions our daughters go unfound our sisters ain't Serena [they race adjust our births]19?21 they say they ally they say they here they say they hear they said that last year they say they listen to Kendrick to Nina to Toni to Toni to Audre to James to god they love a soundtrack they love to sound track [they race adjust our cars?]22 they good intention they good intention real good they well mean they racist bone-free [they be tryin? so hard]23?25 their hands are not clean their hands wrote the code our hands get cuffed in labor our hands cannot get soap our lungs cannot get oxygen their algorithms rope? their software comes with ?bootstrap? and that's all you need to know