When is a Concert More Than a Concert

(for Bad Bunny)

This was a Super Bowl concert
by the colonated,
subjugated,
relegated to inferior status,
their first peoples exterminated,
the truth about this
hidden, obfuscated.

A proud son of a proud people,
beautiful and melanated
singing in Spanish at the top of his lungs, from his heart,
of the desire to be emancipated,
dancing fearlessly, joyously,
inviting variegated oppressed people everywhere
to take part, to be liberated.

This concert was everything
white supremacist, immigrant-kidnapping,
women-raping, queer-erasing,
viciously-dictating fascists
and their wanna-be king
absolutely, unapologetically
HATED!

For the many millions
who long for a world
where equality is unmitigated,
peace unequivocated,
cooperation and yes, love
for all humanity is effectuated,
we were deliriously elated
to see this vision
boldly, gorgeously, defiantly
celebrated.

Margery Parsons is a poet and advocate for a radically different and better world. She lives in Chicago and in addition to poetry loves music and film. Her poems have been published in Rag Blog, Poetry Pacific, Calliope, New Verse News, OccuPoetry, Rise Up Review, Haiku Universe, Madness Muse Press and Illinois Poetry Society, with a forthcoming poem in Plate of Pandemic. Read other articles by Margery.