April 3, 2008 - Issue
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Invasion Poetic Black Fusion By Poet Blackman Preach BC Spoken Word Columnist (includes MP3 audio) |
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Click here to listen to Blackman Preach read this poem. 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 Click 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. |
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