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Invasion
45 seconds to pronounce the real deal-
DEAL
mass destruction by hands
HAND?
many hand steering airborne cancers that
kills
Killed Dorothy to LUNG CANCER?
and she didn't smoke
I guess Miss Evers
great-great-grand children
carried my mother's-mother
to the land mill in Mississippi
it airborne fumes & rich crude oil
Is that all they care for?
New Orleans people
though spirited people
be buried in pain
as this government spends billions
on war & tours to see a satellite
on mars
they dump and brag they own the sewer
mill
burning chronic waste, the babies now,
asthmatic
from Brewster/Boland, the Bricks-Ninth
Ward
in New Orleans
it's a pure invasion to kill us all
nuclear and global warming
the conquest never stopped
UNITED, we must fight the white supremacy
that's systematically designed to wipe
us out with
global warming
earthquakes
global warming
glaciers the size of Texas dropping in
the seas-
causing Tsunamis
global warming
surfacing server hurricanes-
Wilma
Katrina
Rita
warning, this is a 45 second-warning
to the racist government-we demand you
repair New Orleans
it black and brown people,
though spirited people-they will live!
The preceeding words are lyrics from the
CD Bumpy
Tymes
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here to listen to Blackman Preach read this poem.
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.