The New Book: Poems, Letters, Blurbs, and Things Ashland041126 a private investigator with an 685 pieces a private investigator with an uncanny talent for locating the lost and missing Royal Davis—owner of a failing Harlem funeral home She remembers 2020 and its cataclysmic reckoning with police brutality and white supremacy: “I do understand that republicans Are cowards and so are those nazis Cheering And those kkk we now call police killing Not to mention father and sons chasing unarmed Black men and running their cars into crowds Pretending they are brave or something They are not only cowards And nazis but evil fools And who go to bed white Wake up American And hate themselves for having To share this earth They will not overcome And we will not love them Nikki Giovanni slashes at the ridiculousness of our cultural and political climate: “We have no secrets since the world shrunk and the icebergs melted and all the year books are digitized