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The revolution is a plow
digging
six feet deep
with the splinters of its’ handles
caving to the bone of the people
resisting
the storm is raging & blows out the
night
on the wick of the candle—
the rain is coming
fire is hard to come by, now—
drenched by the puddles a generation of youth
are washed into poverty—they’re
hungry
while dodging gun totting criminals
blasting at their foes
to survive on these mean streets—Piri—Punto
the established in 2001
said
no child left behind?
Behind—it’s all I see in them
the load a parent has to bare
as they bury their sixth child
killed by gangs
their seventh child bullied
& scared to go outside and play
now—suicide claims the youngest
son
due to insufficient funds
community centers and schools
are failing rapidly
and the grave mark is getting far worst
while changes are not directed from inside
the white house
unless serious demands for changes are made
by the people
we’ll continue to wonder… and
the change
will never come
but too the materialist eyes of the new slave
with no more vision or freedom
than the jailed political prisoners worldwide
the journey has no life to continue
and follow
Moses or Jesus to the other side
of freedom’s mountain
there’s no desire to make it over
our focus is blurred away
to distracted by the science of technology—
TVs tune up hip-hop porn
and un-educated writers for variety shows
it’s too painful to watch
Flava Flav playing himself for the capitalist devil
that America has designed
with Black folk leading the billon dollar campaign
while their mother’s still living
in the projects—
almost 40 years deep after the Civil Rights &
Black Power Movement we’re pacing
at the crossroad &
won’t vote—
Amerikkka’s about to institute the
pic-nic culture
to choke the families of color
and remanding descendants of Africans worldwide
don’t you read the news on?
Cancel Negros Now—(CNN)
it’s being delivered through you
ear-hole
with a headset to your cell phones & iPods
our psyches are to mesmerized & distracted
from the horrible situation in New Orleans
they’re coming—
the violent ones—
Satan’s little evil spirit Bush,
FEMA, Cheney, Halliburton,
Condoleezza—hands all in the details
the builders and thieves all at once
concealing the lies that destroying
the entire world and they do it so—gracefully
SMILING.
white teeth, white hands;
white teeth, Black hands;
white teeth, Asian;
Native,
Chicano,
& Latino hands
are going to be the real reason,
we’ll be burning in hell’s
deception
of wars and rumor of wars
as they push the button of mass destruction—
they do it so, gracefully smiling.
The preceeding words are lyrics from title
cut of the CD Bumpy
Tymes
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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.