Dreams About an Assassination

For the last two nights, I’ve been dreaming of someone, a black woman, being assassinated in front of me, and then I relive the moment over and over again. It’s as if I keep getting back on the roller coaster to experience the witnessing of the assassination again, because I didn’t hardly believe it had happened and it struck me, because there didn’t seem to be anything I could have done to prevent it.

There was a crowd of people and a bustle of cries and shouts. Suddenly, a man ski-masked shoots a black woman in the face with a semi-automatic. I am standing in the inner circle across from the…