George Floyd Died the Most American Death of 2020

A poem in memory of the one-year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd and its ties to history.

George Floyd’s funeral; Photo by Godofredo A. Vásquez - Pool/Getty Images

3,358,814 people died in the United States in 2020
345, 323 died from coronavirus
16,650 died in an automobile accident
690,882 died of heart disease
101,106 died from complications of diabetes

But Big Floyd died
in perhaps the most American of ways
as an outlier
as the conquered
as the la…