ME ME ME (2022)
Everytime you open your mouth
It’s “me” “my” and “I”
“I do everything and better than everyone”
That’s a lie
“If it wasn’t for ME”
Who gives a fuck!
“Look, I figured it out first”
Beginner’s luck
“Me against the … Read the rest
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THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE DIGITIZED (2022)
Revolution won’t happen in
Virtual space
The oppressed communities,
Where it must take place.
For all the
Social media clout chasers
GoFundMe grifters
Mass line fakers
Political shape shifters
And
Posturing pixies
In costumes
From the 60s.
The people’s struggle… Read the rest
BRING OUR COMRADE SISTAS BACK FORWARD* (2022)
Who taught us
To reject love for our daughters
Our sisters
And mothers?
Yeah brothers
Done lost they minds
Remember the time
When we was Black and proud
Now we just Black and loud
Rapping about nothing
Pretending to be … Read the rest
A DIALOG OF MISLEADERS
Black power!
Solidarity!
All power!
Man, we need talk about
‘DAT NIGGA.’
Yeah, his pen
got a blade for a point,
n’ he
keep cuttin’ mufuckers!
What’s YOUR point?
He s’posed to
criticize the system,
but like Hubert Harrison
he … Read the rest
MY NAME IS REVOLUTION
I reach the world
Borders and checkpoints
can’t impede
my seeds
I make flags unfurl
arm little girls
against your preying
not praying
so you can lay in wait
Teach them freedom songs
for THIS world
No need to wait… Read the rest
Black Wall Street Is Still Burning (A Poem) (2021)
If in 1921 Greenwood was a ‘hood,
They’d dismiss what happened as gentrification;
“Black Wall Street,” a phenomenal feat,
So historians erased it.
How the burning aimed to depopulate it,
A thriving Black community, although segregated.
White mobs massacred hundreds, … Read the rest
Gorilla Theater (2011)
Who is King Kong?
You say he’s me?
Hell naw, you wrong!
Yeah, they called us both “ape” from day one.
And we was both kings back home,
The Kongo for one.
And just like Kong,
We was defiant and … Read the rest