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I Was Innocent

Travis Green

I was innocent, but they didn’t want to listen to me.
I was a black man by the name of Will Brown, charged
for assaulting a white woman, Agnes Loebeck, on
September 25, 1919. I was nowhere near the scene
of the crime. I would never commit such a horrible action
against anyone, but the mob wouldn’t listen to me. I was
a dangerous black man in their rain-washed eyes, a black beast
terrorizing endless streets and various victims, a filthy nigger
who didn’t deserve to live or breathe in this reality. On September
28, 1919, I was seized by the crazed crowd, threatened, and beaten,
bleeding, flesh screaming, scarlet tears rolling down my scarred
cheeks as my speech became slurred, blurred depictions
of damaging storms surfacing my swollen physique.
I don’t remember much, but I was hung up in the air with a rope
around my neck, my body spinning in dizzy dreams,
painstaking plots, blazed bullets shot to my heart,
tied behind a car, dragged across the raging roads, burned
to the bone as the mob grinned at my lifeless existence.

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