Incantation: James Brown Poem by Jonathan Andrew Perez

Missing Witness: (n. phrase) :the expectation by a jury of one's peers that your existence is your to keep, that you are a witness to salvageable testimony

Encore: who waited in the rain, roar upswing,
There, no material thing could exist

Where Brown, a man's flittering rickety jacket, Good Gawd.
Where no, you cannot unblind a salvageable thing.

Charge! It like it is - jurors of the extinct
Chant, chant, the encore 1963, we Apollo bulbs

where the brightest white cannot reach, where negative inference
God, whenever you speak, we thrive visibly,

Where blisters on necks are an exoneration.
There the silk fine suit, a chitlin circuit crime scene

These words, transform that crime scene, these visions are reproveable
Fissions in the otherwise heavenly paradise of funkdom.

Screams, Missing witness charge! Missing witness charge!
Resurrect your unimpeachable testimony

Where the condemned thrive visibly
Where bias cannot reach, there charge any stage to speak.