Amiri Baraka "Obama Poem"
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Courtesy of brother Mwalimu Kabaila @ facebook.com/Simbamaat
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Courtesy of brother Mwalimu Kabaila @ facebook.com/Simbamaat
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Bob McNeil
Thursday, February 6th 2014 at 4:04AM
Soul without a Heaven
Evermore, Amiri’s spirit is a disobeyer,
Fighting all oppositional visions.
On Newark’s numerous walls,
He smears odes to Marxist contrarians.
Evermore, Amiri’s spirit is a disobeyer,
Whose rancor for imperialists
Could torch their needs
To ashen nothingness.
Evermore, Amiri’s spirit is a disobeyer,
Whose right hand manages a pen,
Whose left banks on its shank,
And both will shiv his enemies’ livers.
Evermore, Amiri’s spirit is a disobeyer.
Delighting anti-Semites and homophobes,
His published pressure cooker bomb explodes.
Such shaitan ire never erodes.
Shaitan: an evil spirit in Islamic countries
Copyright 2014
by Bob McNeil
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