Step through empire, leave ruins on the bottom of black boots–lace themthings for struggle, for the gamble, for the hustle,for the swollen knuckles, for the donkeys, for the elephants, for the fat cats. Swell the chest and smile for the cameras. James Brown screams a soulful riff from a nearby corner. I raise a fist,Continue reading “Militant Kiss at Lunch Time”
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New Poems in The Skinny Poetry Journal!
Peace and greetings! I hope this message finds you well and finding some semblance of peace in the current whirlwinds of the American experience. The Skinny Poetry Journal has published two of my poems, James Baldwin’s Smile and Medium Sized Coffee with a Side Order of Resistance. Click on the image and check them out!
Unbothered: After Election Time
After voting time, my face is still shaped like a fist. Tightly screwed. Unbothered. Huey P. Newton behind a podium or Fred Hampton trying to build class solidarity. The truth lives in a gray area, an overcast reality. Strange and lit. Apply maximum muscle in traffic–shun mercy–because they only understand pressure. Pressure is sustained ideology,Continue reading “Unbothered: After Election Time”
Nation-Building Escapes Fingertips
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.”–Marianne Williamson Allergic to nation-building and the rich blues of the Diaspora. Them reparations checks keep xenophobes mentally enslaved, shucking and jiving for quasi-liberation, for aContinue reading “Nation-Building Escapes Fingertips”
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American Jazz in Late October
A different path. A different frequency. Flight is an idea, a way of life for people who are locked into alternative methods of screaming into the void, an American thing. The Last Poets talk fear of revolution. Lock Smith runs down the good news, like a street prophet, searching for the right angle to communicateContinue reading “American Jazz in Late October”
These Times Call for Good Trouble
Audio Leak Sundays: Junk Food
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Stand Down, Stand Up, and Kneel at the Same Time
Avoid cosplay by any means. Ten toes down. Actors can’t live here. As an Orange tyrant drives a filthy machine through traffic, hoping to convert sleepy people into patriotic minions. Toxic. Life in the margins is lit and smoky. Climb levels of wokeness. Bold. Both parties got blues in their veins. Angry birds don’t fly straight.Continue reading “Stand Down, Stand Up, and Kneel at the Same Time”
Resistance as Lullaby
Say no to empire, to both wings of the same filthybird. Parties of failure and gas lighters. Let the teacher bless cold classrooms with fiery lessons from US history. Let young Emmett Till get his revenge. Let Baldwin have the last laugh. Let Hendrix blues up the Star-Spangled Banner. Let James Brownplay Payback until itContinue reading “Resistance as Lullaby “
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