A Blues for Tyre

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POETRY FOR INCLUSION

He screamed Mom, Mom, Mom

The Blues City concrete mourns


Cruelty strikes with haste

Blue tortures Black


Memphis is singing the blues

Ebony skin soaked in red


Another Black son slain

Reform gonna need to reign


Tyre Tyre Tyre

Rest easy Black king

Dr Clark is an outpatient psychiatrist at Prisma Health-Upstate and clinical associate professor at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Greenville. He served on the American Psychiatric Association’s Task Force to Address Structural Racism Throughout Psychiatry, and he currently serves as the Diversity and Inclusion section editor and advisory board member for Psychiatric Times^TM.