Kayla Cooking Their Final Meal For the Community (Poem for Kayla Moore)

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PNNscholar1
Original Body
pnbsp;/p div p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"You smell that/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"But itrsquo;s not ready/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"The table is not set/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"So in the meantime let me tell you a story/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"I am black but/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"nbsp;/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Kalyla could be my sister/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Not because we have th same last name, MOORE/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Forget the police Inbsp; want moore/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"frrom my community/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Stop over looking Kaylarsquo;s full identity/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"nbsp;/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Yes say the correct gender, name disability/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Like me, Kayla was a poet/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"IQ off the scale Kaylarsquo;s words will live on you know it/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Not the same answer over over over/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"No more police crisis intervention training that shit is over/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"nbsp;/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Berkeley, disability meca/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Same place where Disability profiling/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Happens over over over and over/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"especially if you are a person of color/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Police I donrsquo;t want to talk to ya/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"nbsp;/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Courtroom justice is one thing/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Community justice is on going/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Poor magazine says no police calls ever/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Today I have a fever/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Flipping the same coin over and over Democracte or Republican/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"nbsp;/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"nbsp;/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Policy goes in, watered down teeth pulled out/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Here we go again/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Real support came from family Kaylarsquo;s community/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Those are the ones who should have been called/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"All the funds go to the popo the system is flawed/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"nbsp;/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Before we go into the courtroom/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"sweep sweep pull out the broom/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"no all White Jurry/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"They will look like Kayla Moore/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Kayla still in the kitchen/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"A tasty aroma like a thick curry/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"nbsp;/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"The first last supper/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"That will have younbsp; drooling/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"beyond Jurry, lawyer and judge/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"It will be a community fest/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Kayla will feed after we will finally let Kayla rest in peace/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"nbsp;/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"By Leroy F. Moore Jr. 9/16/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"nbsp;/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"nbsp;/p div style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" Pic\drawing: nbsp;Artist Nomy Lamm/div div style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" [Image description: The graphic shows a drawing of Kayla Moore, a large black trans woman. She has shoulder-length brown hair, and she is smiling and flashing a peace sign. Her shirt is purple and black with a blue heart, and the words ldquo;Justice for Kaylardquo; appear in orange on her shoulder and neckline. Above her face are the words, ldquo;We remember Kayla Moorerdquo; in a purple and teal banner. Below the banner, the text reads, ldquo;4-17-71 to 2-13-13. Poet, singer, sister, daughter, genius, friend, black trans woman with a mental health diagnosis killed by Berkeley Police in her own home. They tried to blame her death on lsquo;obesityrsquo;!!! Shame on BPD!rdquo; Drawing copyright Nomy Lamm.]/div /div
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