The ICE Man Cometh
by Sharmagne Leland-St.John

         “All of us are subject to being passive to the social ills around us.
         It’s a struggle not to become, by staying silent, an accomplice.”
         –Mary Allin Travers
         Peter, Paul & Mary

Thursday~December 1, 1955

What would Rosa Parks have done
if she had known the man was wearing a gun?
They yanked her from her seat,
threw her out into the Alabama street. 

Wednesday~January 7, 2026

Renée Good said “I’m not mad” 
that’s all she had…
Now we grieve 
a poet whose only crime:
She tried to leave. 

Some say she was cool and kind, 
dropped her kid off at school
just before nine, 
half an hour later 
took a lethal bullet from a woman hater’s hand. 

This Goon, this total disgrace, 
Somehow  earned the military uniform he wore, 
Then swore after he shot an unarmed woman in the face!

He lied and said she tried 
to run him down, 
so this clown decided to gun her down instead, then fled…
No big deal
to leave a mother of three dead
behind her steering wheel. 

Saturday~January 25, 2026

Alex Jeffrey Pretti wasn’t a poet 
but he had poetry in his soul
before ICE shot him full of holes. 

His day had barely begun 
So what if he had a gun? 
They admit the streets of Minneapolis are unsafe. 

Full of hate
they proved it right then and there! 
No good deed ever goes unpunished
He only wished 
to help a woman they had knocked to the ground. 

Alex found out
about hatred
the hard way
On that fateful day…


 

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