For the darker hue
It remains like slavery of olden days
At any moment
One’s dearest could be
Sold away
Or their existence
Stole away
Heartache wrenched from smiles
On a day
Begun with sunshine
Defiled…
Each moment lived
Pregnant … Read the rest
We in strip clubs
Throwing ones
They at the range
Loading guns
We having dance offs
Booties twerking
They training hand-to-hand
Bodies working
We gouge on junk food
Overweight
They in gyms
Hitting weights
We in the hood
Chasing ghetto … Read the rest
Mama, where my daddy?
He should have been here long ago
Baby I know and I’ll try to explain
Why he just couldn’t show
But Mama, does Daddy love me?
Child you know he do
Truth be told son
Bad … Read the rest
Sometimes a heart
Is left in suspension
With no one
Worthy of mention
To give it individual purpose
To give it life
Like a close ally
A comrade or wife
Sometimes a heart
Has been so taxed
It yearns for … Read the rest
Are we there yet?
No, not yet
Bet we are somewhere
Though not where
We aim to get
And where is that?
It’s a place where
We won’t be preyed on
Anymore
Lie on anymore
Where we’ll receive
An even … Read the rest
MAMA (2025)… Read the rest
by Kevin "Rashid" Johnson
You know all my
Faces
My every shade
My light and dark spaces
The brick beds I've made
On which I've laid
You've endured me
When I try you
Defy you
Test you
But
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN SOUTH CAROLINA LEADS TO SUICIDE AND PSYCHOSIS (2025)
by Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
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I recently wrote about the barbaric conditions in South Carolina’s solitary confinement units (euphemistically called “Restrictive Housing Units”). [1] I want now to give … Read the rest
THE NAZIFICATION OF AMERIKA (2025), by Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
Amerika is this what you wanted
A neo-Nazi in the white house,
Spewing imperial racist rhetoric
out both sides of his lying white mouth?
No pretending this isn’t fascism
Can’t say … Read the rest
LOST LIVES BETWEEN TEXAS AND GAZA (2025), by Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
The Texas floods
were a disaster
The slaughter in Gaza is deliberate
ongoing, much faster
Between Palestine
and the U.S.
Color, nationality and religion
makes their lives worth less… Read the rest
REFLECTIONS ON THE MOVIE “BLINK TWICE” (2025), by Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
Reflecting on the movie
“Blink Twice”
A rich white male rape scene
made a paradise
For the victims of this
wicked scheme
Had the women believing
they were living … Read the rest