for the One and Only
Lajuana Lampkins
March 29, 1957 ~ February 26, 2025
May Allah grant her Jannah
& for All the Mothers whose children were — and will be murdered by the State — domestic or foreign, & for All Mothers who have lost — and will lose their children to the brutal and carceral machinations and institutions of the State
Thoth and Anubis weigh the candidate’s heart against the feather of Ma’at while Ammit hungrily awaits the judgment.
Inside Ancient Egypt exhibit,
Field Museum of Natural History,
Chicago, January 2013
photo: by author
she cries “wolf!” so often
that it becomes tempting to ignore
yet the wolves were always nearby,
stalking, steady clawing at her door
there’s a Wolf curled up at her feet now,
but he’s not of the pack of violent beasts,
you see, this Wolf is not a hungried one,
and He does not want her for his feast
Anubis is the Wolf’s name,
and He waits to gently weigh her Heart
on the Golden Scales of Justice
He’s balanced with a badge and service glock,
these reparations just for her, and Mothers like her,
in lieu of the Feather of Ma’at
No AI image generator was able to create an accurate or even acceptable image from this prompt:
the Egyptian god Anubis standing at the golden scales of judgment — along with the Egyptian god Thoth, weighing a human heart on the balance against a starred police badge and a glock handgun, instead of the Feather of the Egyptian goddess Ma'at, highly detailed and depicted in papyrus style similar to the Egyptian Book of the Dead
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