Somebody Blew Up America & Other Poems
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Somebody Blew Up America.
(All thinking people
oppose terrorism
both domestic
& international…
But one should not
be used
To cover the other) They say its some terrorist, some
barbaric
A Rab, in
Afghanistan
It wasn't our American terrorists
It wasn't the Klan or the Skin heads
Or the them that blows up nigger
Churches, or reincarnates us on Death Row
It wasn't Trent Lott
Or David Duke or Giuliani
Or Schundler, Helms retiring It wasn't
the gonorrhea in costume
the white sheet diseases
That have murdered black people
Terrorized reason and sanity
Most of humanity, as they pleases They say (who say? Who do the saying
Who is them paying
Who tell the lies
Who in disguise
Who had the slaves
Who got the bux out the Bucks Who got fat from plantations
Who genocided Indians
Tried to waste the Black nation Who live on Wall Street
The first plantation
Who cut your nuts off
Who rape your ma
Who lynched your pa Who got the tar, who got the feathers
Who had the match, who set the fires
Who killed and hired
Who say they God & still be the Devil Who the biggest only
Who the most goodest
Who do Jesus resemble Who created everything
Who the smartest
Who the greatest
Who the richest
Who say you ugly and they the goodlookingest Who define art
Who define science Who made the bombs
Who made the guns Who bought the slaves, who sold them Who called you them names
Who say Dahmer wasn't insane
Who/ Who / Who/ Who stole Puerto Rico
Who stole the Indies, the Philipines, Manhattan
Australia & The Hebrides
Who forced opium on the Chinese Who own them buildings
Who got the money
Who think you funny
Who locked you up
Who own the papers Who owned the slave ship
Who run the army Who the fake president
Who the ruler
Who the banker
Who/ Who/ Who/ Who own the mine
Who twist your mind
Who got bread
Who need peace
Who you think need war Who own the oil
Who do no toil
Who own the soil
Who is not a nigger
Who is so great ain't nobody bigger Who own this city Who own the air
Who own the water Who own your crib
Who rob and steal and cheat and murder
and make lies the truth
Who call you uncouth Who live in the biggest house
Who do the biggest crime
Who go on vacation anytime Who killed the most niggers
Who killed the most Jews
Who killed the most Italians
Who killed the most Irish
Who killed the most Africans
Who killed the most Japanese
Who killed the most Latinos Who/Who/Who Who own the ocean Who own the airplanes
Who own the malls
Who own television
Who own radio Who own what ain't even known to be owned
Who own the owners that ain't the real owners Who own the suburbs
Who suck the cities
Who make the laws Who made Bush president
Who believe the confederate flag need to be flying
Who talk about democracy and be lying
WHO/ WHO/ WHOWHO/ Who the Beast in Revelations
Who 666
Who decide
Jesus get crucified Who the Devil on the real side
Who got rich from Armenian genocide Who the biggest terrorist
Who change the bible
Who killed the most people
Who do the most evil
Who don't worry about survival Who have the colonies
Who stole the most land
Who rule the world
Who say they good but only do evil
Who the biggest executioner Who/Who/Who ^^^ Who own the oil
Who want more oil
Who told you what you think that later you find out a lie
Who/ Who/ ??? Who fount Bin Laden, maybe they Satan
Who pay the CIA,
Who knew the bomb was gonna blow
Who know why the terrorists
Learned to fly in Florida, San Diego Who know why Five Israelis was filming the explosion
And cracking they sides at the notion Who need fossil fuel when the sun ain't goin' nowhere Who make the credit cards
Who get the biggest tax cut
Who walked out of the Conference
Against Racism
Who killed Malcolm, Kennedy & his Brother
Who killed Dr King, Who would want such a thing?
Are they linked to the murder of Lincoln? Who invaded Grenada
Who made money from apartheid
Who keep the Irish a colony
Who overthrow Chile and Nicaragua later Who killed David Sibeko, Chris Hani,
the same ones who killed Biko, Cabral,
Neruda, Allende, Che Guevara, Sandino, Who killed Kabila, the ones who wasted Lumumba, Mondlane , Betty Shabazz, Princess Margaret, Ralph Featherstone, Little Bobby Who locked up Mandela, Dhoruba, Geronimo,
Assata, Mumia,Garvey, Dashiell Hammett, Alphaeus Hutton Who killed Huey Newton, Fred Hampton,
MedgarEvers, Mikey Smith, Walter Rodney,
Was it the ones who tried to poison Fidel
Who tried to keep the Vietnamese Oppressed Who put a price on Lenin's head Who put the Jews in ovens,
and who helped them do it
Who said "America First"
and ok'd the yellow stars
WHO/WHO/ ^^
Who killed Rosa Luxembourg, Liebneckt
Who murdered the Rosenbergs
And all the good people iced,
tortured , assassinated, vanished Who got rich from Algeria, Libya, Haiti,
Iran, Iraq, Saudi, Kuwait, Lebanon,
Syria, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine, Who cut off peoples hands in the Congo
Who invented Aids Who put the germs
In the Indians' blankets
Who thought up "The Trail of Tears" Who blew up the Maine
& started the Spanish American War
Who got Sharon back in Power
Who backed Batista, Hitler, Bilbo,
Chiang kai Chek who WHO W H O/ Who decided Affirmative Action had to go
Reconstruction, The New Deal, The New
Frontier, The Great Society, Who do Tom Ass Clarence Work for
Who doo doo come out the Colon's mouth
Who know what kind of Skeeza is a Condoleeza
Who pay Connelly to be a wooden negro
Who give Genius Awards to Homo Locus
Subsidere Who overthrew Nkrumah, Bishop,
Who poison Robeson,
who try to put DuBois in Jail
Who frame Rap Jamil al Amin, Who frame the Rosenbergs, Garvey,
The Scottsboro Boys, The Hollywood Ten
Who set the Reichstag Fire Who knew the World Trade Center was gonna get bombed
Who told 4000 Israeli workers at the Twin Towers
To stay home that day
Why did Sharon stay away ?
/
Who,Who, Who/
explosion of Owl the newspaper say
the devil face cd be seen Who WHO Who WHO Who make money from war
Who make dough from fear and lies
Who want the world like it is
Who want the world to be ruled by imperialism and national oppression and terror
violence, and hunger and poverty. Who is the ruler of Hell?
Who is the most powerful
Who you know ever
Seen God? But everybody seen
The Devil
Like an Owl exploding
In your life in your brain in your self
Like an Owl who know the devil
All night, all day if you listen, Like an Owl
Exploding in fire. We hear the questions rise
In terrible flame like the whistle of a crazy dog Like the acid vomit of the fire of Hell
Who and Who and WHO (+) who who ^
Whoooo and Whooooooooooooooooooooo!
AMIRI B 10/01 |
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May 4, 2008 at 2:54 am | edit It is beautiful to be black indeed! I hope you don’t mind if I use your poem on my blog, dedicated to celebrate the beauty of African people and of the African continent. Please check the Website http://www.thefaceofafrika.com/ and contact us at thefaceofafrika@googlemail.com
March 2, 2009 at 5:52 pm | edit love the poem it describes me and the way that i feel, it’s very intresting to me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 19, 2009 at 12:27 am | edit i love the poem i hope it will inspire many
can i use your poem for my group “black is beautiful?”
January 15, 2010 at 6:22 pm | edit i love the poem and i hope other people do to and i hope they love to be black
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