Waterfalls

Waterfall

insightfully I try,

to string piercing words

and let them sing,

burn the ears off doves with ink stained notepads,

and steel encrusted mics,

while I stay with the beauty of words.

wield the power of a simple verb

though cunning catamouths might lay in wait

a steel booted step

and a stingy brim can gleam

thru the bamboo shoots,

rice paddies and cane fields

like a monsoon levels a tropical rainforest,

(not "jungle", that's Brazil)

bare it raw

descend on Kilimanjaro's peaks

with the Mau Mau chasing Rhodes

as scholarly as a missionary's bible

like a pacifier to a baby

yet I choose hunger so my

stomach burns

the way demonic ice

infiltrates the brains

leaving scars

twisted hemp

cat-o-nine tails

tobyless legs running in

molasses trying to master

wine

not knowing that drums

can't be silent when winds blow

and 4 quarters don't necessarily equals a dollar

and what's the difference between John Brown

and Howard Johnson?

Vanilla ain't my flavor

I like my sugar

ungranulated,

thick

twisted strands

caps the dolls of my

dreams

with a clenched fist

prong going through my tresses,

hoe the curried fields of my brain

letting the Atlantic Ocean

erupt like the cascading flows of my waterfall,

Victoria ain't an apt name in the heart of

Alkebuland,

can you feel the rainforest scream?

the body is rejecting that donation

and the transplant won't take

not the way Christiaan Barnard

took out a patent on heart transplant.

planted another false tree

in a petrified forest

and saw Eden become hell

Euphrates stand still

make Cain sing,

weeds bleed,

and graves grieve.

                   

you see,

we

digging holes but not

digging what we hold

hands out,

not hand outs,

its ten fingers looking

for ten times ten more

It’s not crabs pulling back

it's brothers pushing back

bending backs

giving up shoulders like ladders

step

reach down

pull and step

locking black future in an African dance

communal march to the doors of hell

be it God damn Gotham

or Washington

march and raze all

the stolen fields of dreams

burn flags that unfold to smother black babies

with a constitution

that constitutes nothing but our

destruction

destroy the mental chains

level capital hill

and capital gains

drag boots off the throats of the

first world

and see my black sons live

slice the insidious webs

of Pepsi and Coca Cola,

multinational plantations

2001 disguised puppet masters

feel me snip Geppeto's strings

let them take their wooden nose

that grows and grows

into western sunrise

middle eastern Egypt

Columbus day parades

and aids came from gays

Japan wanted the Enola Gay

blacks are better at sports

Elvis was king

Special kids can't learn

the meek will inherit the earth

driving Miss Daisy is a good thing

caged birds do sing

dogs are man's best friend

men came from apes

white is a color

slavery was ordained

heaven is in the sky

and I like living like this

so I smile

because I am happy

and blondes are a brother's dream

shit call OJ collect and let him

sing

crack Michael's shell and see what's within

then dare to tell me this

shit

ain't got to end.