In October 2015, Hotel,
The fifth instalment
In the American Horror Story
Television anthology aired.
In Hotel’s first episode
A man is brutally raped
And left to die.
A lonely bystander watches.
Ten minutes after the episode
#LadyGagaAHS, #AHSHotel
And #YASSSHOTEL
Were all trending worldwide.
As of September, 2015
776 people were murdered
By U. S. Police.
745 were men.
In Ferguson,
Mike Brown was brutally shot
And left to die.
A lonely officer watched.
Ten minutes after his death,
The twitter birds were
Less forthcoming in tweeting.
An eventual #Ferguson surfaced.
Darren Wilson watched the blood
Seep from an eighteen year old boy
Like it was season premiere night
Of his favourite television show.
Would his death had
A faster impact if
Lady Gaga or Jessica Lange
Wielded a bloody axe around their heads?
Would #MikeBrown, #SandraBland
#BlackLivesMatter
See the light of day again
If governed by U.S. officers?
Murder House,
Asylum, Coven,
Freak Show,
Hotel.
I like American Horror Story
But 776 episodes of
American Horror Story: Police Station
Is too much, for anyone.
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