• Because Context Matters

    Cory Ruiz – Shot by police on a Madison, WI street on July 22, 2026

  • I Did Not Know Him
    I Do Know We Cannot Shoot
    Our Way to Justice
  • What a Strange Jury
    Convened on a Public Street
    With a Death Sentence
  • A Life Gone All Wrong
    Is Still a Life and a Shot
    Still Robs Us of It

  • A Fearful Phone Call
    Calling Force to Trade Life
    For False Security

  • There is No Record 
    That Justifies his Blood Spilled,
    Careless, in the Street

  • There’s Blood on the Street
    Again, as if We Can Not
    Bear Each Other’s Worth
  • Beware Any Use
    Of Unbridled Power and
    Its Certain Failure

  • Are We So Afraid
    Of Our Bloody Past That We
    Cannot See It's True

  • Why’s It So Often
    True That Belief Blinds Us To
    What is Plainly True

  • Why Can We Not Bear
    The Truth of Our Black Past. Have
    We Not Changed At All?

  • A Person Deprived
    Of a Comely Future is
    The Death of Us All

  • Letting Go of Blood
    And Reason, We Die for Lack
    Of Breath or Meaning

  • When Bombs Start Falling
    The Futility Erupts
    Of Our Picking Sides

  • What Do White Men Owe?
    Everything, like Everyone
    We’re Not Innocent

  • The Best History
    Is Never Written in the 
    Cries of Small Children

  • Self Evident Truths
    Feared Lost, but Honored Again
    A World Breathes Deeply

  • Corporate Ishmael
    The White Whale a Ticking Clock
    And Always High Seas