What Can Happen

What can happen are things that actually happen.
Benjamin Jealous becomes president of the NAACP,
and finds a woman named Love by the reflecting pool,
marching on Washington fifty years ago
and now: Martin Luther King,
Jr. Can a man ever shake his suffix?

While we march from monument to monument,
other monuments are erected in-between.
Under the big tents another man says to shake
your money maker. Shake that Money down!
What's true and what we just don't know yet.
At the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

(an oxymoron from the start), reporters for the New York
Times describe the Negroes as a separate group of people
with their particular interests and demands,
which particular interests and demands
may be met, rebuffed, or, per the preferred method
of Democracy, delayed. The Fired Next Time

'R Us, sings the walrus. And we are all together.
Headlines of the paper from August 29, 1963:
"200,000 March for Civil Rights"
and "U.S. Presses U.N. To Condemn Syria"
The news that stays news (only the bylines change)
is news: the Syrian Electronic Army pulls down

the website of the New York Times.
Fifty years and they're not too late.