When I was a child my father demanded
recite Kipling’s poem “If”
he never mentioned Rudyard was a bigot
I found out only because I sniffed
around in his collection of poems
beyond my father’s plans
discovered the ripening he … Read the rest
oh great pretenders
you act as though
the things you do
you do not know
when history shows
your world was built
on lands and wealth stolen
islands of gold
surrounded by oceans
of blood and bones
from people slaughtered… Read the rest
The socialist states
are all gone
Does this mean capitalism
has finally won?
By no means
is the fate of all decided
Just because the rich now
have divided
And eat the world like
a pie
Causing billions to die… Read the rest
I love my mother
you raped her
hunted her children
stalked and killed them
connived to steal them
scattered her seeds
to the four winds
made them forget
their familial bonds
so now there’s been
generations
of wars between her … Read the rest
I am not me
I am We
without which
I cannot be
cannot be free
even if I could go
wherever I desired to be
a warrior’s life
belongs to the people
individualism is evil
feeble
not equal
with an … Read the rest
I approach the question gravely,
Do we abolish prisons or prison slavery?
As long as class struggle exists,
There will always be this:
Military police and prisons,
Eliminating either is a far off vision
All three form the basis of … Read the rest
oh tell me
please mama
what ever happened
to Barack Obama?
they said he was
so hated
cuz he’d see us
liberated
well there’s still no money
in your purse
and since he was in office
things got worse
the … Read the rest
free Huey!
a demand that sparked
a movement
the needle
we moved it
closer
to freedom
Huey P. we freed him
but afterward lost steam
which means
another deferred dream
but the vision
ain’t dead
instead
we gotta
revive what … Read the rest
the wisest of us
are self taught
who escape the trap
of being caught
in the web of lies
fed in the formal schools
of our oppressors
trained with abnormal rules
deformed
and used
for generations
as tools
of our … Read the rest
Someone once told Huey P. Newton
you are what you eat
Cuz he called cops pigs
but admitted he ate pig feet
Huey responded to the critic
but you call yourself a man
So doesn’t that means my brother
that … Read the rest