This poem by Jericho Brown entitled "Bullet Points" epitomizes an emphasis on rhetoric, I feel, because it clearly outlines it's rhetorical purpose - namely within the final lines of the poem:

"...I promise that if you hear/ Of me dead anywhere near/ A cop, then that cop killed me."

The lines prior to those function to set up the rhetorical situation:

"I will not shoot myself/ In the back...and if I do,/ I promised you, I will not do it,/In a police car while handcuffed..."

As you move throughout the poem there are allusions made to the violent and often fatal relationship that black and brown people experience with law enforcement. I feel that Brown purposed for this poem to tell the narrative of many whose voices weren't made able to be heard because of their perceived suicides, and the story telling structure and violent phrases he utilized helped him make that purpose possible.