Chauvinist Pigs: A Poem

Chauvinist Pigs

for George Floyd

by John Kendall Hawkins

The riot squad is restless

They need somewhere to go

- Bob Dylan, "Desolation Row"

Derek the chauvinist piggy

Up to his knee in neck

All coz George wanted a ciggy

And paid for a pack with dreck
.

Repeat: I can't breathe, he said

I can't breathe: twenty times

Like a mindfulness exercise gone code red

Or Derek, George's smoking gun coach,

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