Double Standard

by Heath Brougher / February 17th, 2019

When a
police officer
is killed
it is
a tragedy.

When a
black person
is killed
it is
a statistic.

Heath Brougher is the editor-in-chief of Concrete Mist Press. He was the recipient of the 2018 Poet of the Year Award and is a multiple Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee. He has authored twelve books, the most recent of which is Beware the Bourgeois Doomsday Fantasy (Sandy Press, 2024). Read other articles by Heath.

This article was posted on Sunday, February 17th, 2019 at 8:02am and is filed under Poetry.