Nigger Rich
Enemy Without
Daytona Rolex, $23,000,
SLK Mercedes Benz, $100,000,
Stripper Allowance, $12,000 per night.
Not having the money to pay child support, priceless…
Butter Full-length Leather, $4,500,
10 Karat VVS Pinky Ring, $45,000,
VIP Season Tickets, NBA and NFL, $98,000
Not having money to pay for mandatory court appointed
spousal abuse classes, priceless…
If a nigger is as, niggers do then “All Fall Down” is truly
an internal glimpse into the psyche of black folk
don’t know how to act folk, can’t stop selling and using
crack folk, all unevenly yoked…
An external pain embodied humanized
actions often blamed on the savagery of slavery
little black on black crime in hulls of toothpick ships
little black on black demeaning of full lips, thick hips
little black on black(s) desiring to have anything other than
triple flipped painted whips, falling flat screens, chrome dipped
rims, platinum chains; was not James Byrd drug to death
by one, was not Malcolm X shot to death by one of his own kind
Underdeveloped minds yielding to a state of “Tennessee, Tennessee”
devolving, back sliding, writhing in discomfort
swimming in illusions of equality
expecting respecting returns based on amounts of salary earned
not realizing that if a nigger is as niggers do
then Lady Sings the Blues is theme music to a non-existent existence
only seen as the unseen leaving (they, them, ya’ll) Ralph Ellisonized
Traumatized, seeking final solutions in baptismal waters…
Drown, drown, drown for its too late to yell, “I’m a man!
Take these here bullets for them there sheets.”
Drown, drown, drown for its too late…
Thank God I’m white!!!
Daytona Rolex, $23,000,
SLK Mercedes Benz, $100,000,
Stripper Allowance, $12,000 per night.
Not having the money to pay child support, priceless…
Butter Full-length Leather, $4,500,
10 Karat VVS Pinky Ring, $45,000,
VIP Season Tickets, NBA and NFL, $98,000
Not having money to pay for mandatory court appointed
spousal abuse classes, priceless…
If a nigger is as, niggers do then “All Fall Down” is truly
an internal glimpse into the psyche of black folk
don’t know how to act folk, can’t stop selling and using
crack folk, all unevenly yoked…
An external pain embodied humanized
actions often blamed on the savagery of slavery
little black on black crime in hulls of toothpick ships
little black on black demeaning of full lips, thick hips
little black on black(s) desiring to have anything other than
triple flipped painted whips, falling flat screens, chrome dipped
rims, platinum chains; was not James Byrd drug to death
by one, was not Malcolm X shot to death by one of his own kind
Underdeveloped minds yielding to a state of “Tennessee, Tennessee”
devolving, back sliding, writhing in discomfort
swimming in illusions of equality
expecting respecting returns based on amounts of salary earned
not realizing that if a nigger is as niggers do
then Lady Sings the Blues is theme music to a non-existent existence
only seen as the unseen leaving (they, them, ya’ll) Ralph Ellisonized
Traumatized, seeking final solutions in baptismal waters…
Drown, drown, drown for its too late to yell, “I’m a man!
Take these here bullets for them there sheets.”
Drown, drown, drown for its too late…
Thank God I’m white!!!
posted by SLUMP FACADE at 10:44:00 AM
Holy Crap!!
Good stuff...full of truth..!
You offer more art to paint the fundamental reality of spirit not being about
color,
class,
religion,
political leaning,
socioeconomic place,
or childhood.
Got spirit?
Reads kinda like an agenda at a klan meeting...or maybe a modern-day script from "Birth of a Nation"...or maybe even the treatment for the next big hip hop video...???
As we talked about earlier B, sounds less like a poem and more like commentary. Starting the dialogue is always the first step. Actually makes me think of that intro on "Head Clinic" where you're talking about the corner of 36th Street...
It took me a minute to find this post, so disregard my earlier email...
Not offensive at all, it's truthful. Sometimes truth is offensive which is the very reason most folks don't go there (truth that is). Lots of folks walking around in a fairy tale head, blind.
I like it, it's raw. I could actually picture you at a coffee shop or wherever poetry gets read in all of it's passion. I could hear the words out loud.
Like I said, if your motives are good and pure that is what will be received. If your conviction is steady, that is what will be received.
Based on recent events on my blog, sometimes folks mis-interpret words and make them something all their own, but that's on them.
You have a lot going on inside your head, it's to get it out.
rarely do I thank god for anything, let alone being white (especially when I hear/read good black poetry)
I dig it man. middle finger pointing into the mirror.
no critisism