Today President Obama
announced an initiative
called My Brother's Keeper
to bring attention
to the deeply-rooted plights
facing America's young black men.
He deplored
the country's "numbness".
"It doesn't take much"
he said
"but it takes more
than we are doing now."
Among the attendees
was Bill O'Reilly
who will probably
dig up from his words
an intention
Obama never even
realized he had
but for now
for the sake of sanity
this poet will grant him
a shred of decency.
This poem © 2014 Emily Cooper.
