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rgv
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"Black Art" {possibly my favorite poem eva}

Poems are bullshit unless they are
teeth or trees or lemons piled
on a step. Or black ladies dying
of men leaving nickel hearts
beating them down. Fuck poems
and they are useful, wd they shoot
come at you, love what you are,
breathe like wrestlers, or shudder
strangely after pissing. We want live
words of the hip world live flesh &
coursing blood. Hearts Brains
Souls splintering fire. We want poems
like fists beating niggers out of Jocks
or dagger poems in the slimy bellies
of the owner-jews. Black poems to
smear on girdlemamma mulatto bitches
whose brains are red jelly stuck
between 'lizabeth taylor's toes. Stinking
Whores! we want "poems that kill."
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
with tongues pulled out and sent to Ireland. Knockoff
poems for dope selling wops or slick halfwhite
politicians Airplane poems, rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
rrrrrrrrrrrrrrr . . .tuhtuhtuhtuhtuhtuhtuhtuhtuhtuh
. . .rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr . . . Setting fire and death to
whities ass. Look at the Liberal
Spokesman for the jews clutch his throat
& puke himself into eternity . . . rrrrrrrr
There's a negroleader pinned to
a bar stool in Sardi's eyeballs melting
in hot flame Another negroleader
on the steps of the white house one
kneeling between the sheriff's thighs
negotiating coolly for his people.
Aggh . . . stumbles across the room . . .
Put it on him, poem. Strip him naked
to the world! Another bad poem cracking
steel knuckles in a jewlady's mouth
Poem scream poison gas on beasts in green berets
Clean out the world for virtue and love,
Let there be no love poems written
until love can exist freely and
cleanly. Let Black people understand
that they are the lovers and the sons
of warriors and sons
of warriors Are poems & poets &
all the loveliness here in the world

We want a black poem. And a
Black World.
let the world be a Black Poem
And Let All Black People Speak This Poem
Silently
or LOUD

i just want chu to know
how i feel
how i feel

  

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blk history month writers {06} [View all] , rgv, Fri Feb-03-06 10:55 AM
 
Subject Author Message Date ID
lucille clifton
Feb 03rd 2006
1
RE: lucille clifton
Feb 05th 2006
12
RE: amiri baraka/leroi jones
Feb 03rd 2006
3
$60 is serious....
Feb 03rd 2006
4
      RE: $60 is serious....
Feb 03rd 2006
5
           RE: $60 is serious....
Feb 13th 2006
28
RE: amiri baraka/leroi jones
Feb 05th 2006
11
mari evans
Feb 04th 2006
6
enjoying your blog too...
Feb 04th 2006
7
thanks
Feb 04th 2006
9
carolyn rodgers (an all-time favorite)
Feb 04th 2006
8
Feb 06th 2006
15
don l lee/ haki madhubuti {in love w/ this poem}
Feb 05th 2006
10
I Wonder ...
Feb 06th 2006
13
audre lorde
Feb 06th 2006
14
robert hayden
Feb 07th 2006
16
patricia smith
Feb 08th 2006
17
RE: patricia smith
Feb 08th 2006
18
regie gibson
Feb 09th 2006
19
june jordan {i know...ive used this before, but i LOVE it}
Feb 10th 2006
20
RE: june jordan {i know...ive used this before, but i LOVE it}
Feb 10th 2006
23
yusef komunyakaa {per papa & soul's requests}
Feb 10th 2006
21
read like a nice twist to John Henry ;)
Feb 10th 2006
22
RE: yusef komunyakaa {per papa & soul's requests}
Feb 10th 2006
24
thylias moss
Feb 13th 2006
25
jean toomer
Feb 13th 2006
26
sapphire {it's kinda long, but is's fkn worth it}
Feb 13th 2006
27
Gayle Jones
Feb 14th 2006
29
ive read all of her novels
Feb 16th 2006
30
      RE: ive read all of her novels
Feb 24th 2006
38
langston hughes
Feb 16th 2006
31
more langston
Feb 16th 2006
32
      more langston again
Feb 16th 2006
33
           my absolute favorite langston piece {if u were a harlemite, ud understan...
Feb 16th 2006
34
           RE: my absolute favorite langston piece {if u were a harlemite, ud under...
Mar 14th 2006
43
           RE: more langston again
Feb 16th 2006
36
ntozake shange {for noni, & shida, & me}
Feb 16th 2006
35
just a fact.
Feb 17th 2006
37
RE: blk history month writers {06}
Feb 27th 2006
39
not a poet, but... octavia butler
Feb 27th 2006
40
ohmyfknGod
Mar 04th 2006
41
      yeah, The Fledgling...
Mar 05th 2006
42
RE: blk history month writers {06}
Mar 14th 2006
44

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