Our Affliction: the Cause the Cure (2026) By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson

I’m glad you came in
Please, sit on the table
Let me check your vitals
You look strong and able

But our tests say
Things are amiss
Let me put up you x-ray
Hey, look at this

There’s an abnormal
Curve in your spine
Looks like you spent
A long time in binds

And right over here
There’s fluid in your chest
Causing your heart
So much stress

And these scars
That crisscross your back
Like you were the victim
Of animal attacks

And what of these impressions
Around your neck
They look like rope burns
And, what the heck?

You see these separations
Along your spine
Looks like you were hanged
By your neck many times

Then your torso and legs
Are covered in burns
And scars show infections
From untreated germs

Your missing fingers
And genitals is queer
Were they cut off as mementos
Taken as souvenirs?

And you have a predisposition
To hypertension
Stemming from surviving
Horrible conditions

Tests show months
Chained in ships dehydrated
Your body retained salt
That’s how you made it

Those who couldn’t do the same
Perished at sea
This is why your descendants
Are weak for heart disease

And I detect evidence
Of things you don’t say
Stretch marks but you’re childless
Were your babies stolen away?

Muscles show fatigue
From overwork day after day
But you’re malnourished
The obvious results of bad pay

My god! It defies logic
That you’re still alive
What’s been your drive?
How have you survived?

But what’s more puzzling
Than your will to live and fight
Is what caused such suffering
What type of parasite

What kind of leech
Has such a pathological need
To degrade and destroy its host
In order to feed

So we ran tests
For the source of your affliction
And found capitalism and racism
Made you their victim

Both were born and grew
From leeching dark blood
Spreading their poisonous influence
Corrupting all that’s good

But from our studies
We have the solution
How to destroy this parasite
Bring its reign to a conclusion

So we recommend as treatment
The surgery you need
Is world socialist revolution
With Afrikan workers in the lead