October 25, 2007
- Issue 250 |
||
Press the F11 key for a larger
full screen view |
||
CAMDEN New Jersey Poetic Black Fusion By Poet Blackman Preach BC Spoken Word Columnist |
||
|
||
Camden residence are dying a fast death billed as the worst— living in hell are families, media reports but what’s getting priority, is not priority and the rumors, the rumors of the murder rate— Is it really ten times the national average? kids acquiring illegal weapons and hungry with an appetite for torture sick people demonstrate their intentions daily they duct tape, toss a sheet over community members & soak gasoline on families of color—they’re burned alive— BURNED ALIVE? the terror that America is producing from the rooftop a Black sniper with a semi-automatic pecks away at trespassers on their block till’ somebody screams that trigger killed my baby— defenseless & strapped in a car seat driven by a bloody hysterical parent in a state of shock the three year old dies, painfully the mother cries as the shooter didn’t know he murdered his first borne until word slithers back to the perpetrator fronting to be the killer confused cause he actually think he’s the protector of his hood a new cry paralyze the hustler peddling to survive & live— with the breaking news for life sick people demonstrate their intentions daily as the violence extent out to the suburbs the special enforcement are called to the ghetto—now they charge after a couple of thousands families were terrorized and murdered by black and brown hands as white hands were tied up in Iraq having nothing to do with the psychological burden the marshal law goes into effect—to police Camden to St Louis the horrible news reaches international interest— the feds and other agencies are sent to control the environment and bring order to homes being run by overworked single mothers— pimped by the system—dead or gone it’s real with no answers to the increasing problems in America and it’s war on us other cities will fall under siege with more terror through drugs, money and death to float this failing economy that’s going to drown worse than the people on the Titanic sick people through the vacuums of identities demonstrate their intentions daily with airborne viruses that’s cancerous and not curable the thief wants you to believe it’s not curable I’ll be censoring my cuss words & just stretch my middle-finger with the blue dot to the satellite vote New Orleans residence did not get sick people demonstrate daily their intent to close many doors on community programs forcing the children escaping terrorism at home of the violent surrogate molesting step father’s—psychological trauma the system reinforce white supremacy & re-enslave the mentality—the scare deepen— in public schools, colleges, churches, corporations, anything that has paid interest to the sole controllers built by the hands of others—the blueprint remains in their archives even though it was another’s intellectual property—we are paying to be taxed and broke at the same time there is no come up from the bottom down— the low places of the pit undeserved by any of God’s creation— the sickness thickens —REMEMBER— Satan has a huge band of little devils: with a shorter window of time he cannot alter time but make more people sick through Jazz, Blues, Gospel, R & B, and Hip hop —PAY ATTENTION— through Jazz, Blues, Gospel, R & B and Hip-Hop. The preceeding words are lyrics from the CD Bumpy Tymes BlackCommentator.com Spoken Word Columnist, Poet Blackman Preach (Cedric T. Bolton), is a poet (spoken word artist) and producer, born in Pascagoula, Mississippi and raised in Paterson, New Jersey. Cedric received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Western Washington University and currently resides, with his wife, in Syracuse, New York. He is the Founder of Poetic Black Fusion, a writers' workshop that provides access and opportunities to poets of African Ancestry living in Central New York. He is also the co-founder of Voices Merging, a student-run poetry organization (spoken word) at the University of Minnesota that provides a social outlet for undergraduate students to develop as writers, network and express themselves on stage. He has been writing poetry for 14 years and is published in the Ethnic Student Center's Newsletter at Western Washington University, The Spokesman Recorder, and St. Cloud Times. Click here to contact Blackman Preach. |
||