Sense Sonnet - Acher

Emmett

Emmett Till was 14 years old
In 1955 and went
Down South to his uncle's household
For the summertime to be spent.
His momma told the young black man
To mind his manners with white folk.
But something happened, as things can.
Emmett whistled, just a boy's joke;
And a white lady took offense,
Telling others of Emmett's crime.
So he was killed by some white gents.
In the wrong place at the wrong time.

There wasn't much else to be done.
Emmett's momma buried her son.