American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [“Probably twilight makes blackness dangerous”]

Probably twilight makes blackness dangerous Darkness. Probably all my encounters Are existential jambalaya. Which is to say, A nigga can survive. Something happened In Sanford, something happened in Ferguson And Brooklyn & Charleston, something happened In Chicago & Cleveland & Baltimore & happens Almost everywhere in this country every day. Probably someone is prey in all of our encounters. You won’t admit it. The names alive are like the names In graves. Probably twilight makes blackness Darkness. And a gate. Probably the dark blue skin Of a black man matches the dark blue skin Of his son the way one twilight matches another.