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Black Art
By Amiri Baraka
Poems are bullshit unless they are
teeth or trees or lemons piled
on a step. Or black ladies dying
of men leaving nickel hearts
beating them down. Fuck poems
and they are useful, wd they shoot
come at you, love what you are,
breathe like wrestlers, or shudder
strangely after pissing. We want
live
words of the hip world live flesh
&
coursing blood. Hearts Brains
Souls splintering fire. We want
poems
like fists beating niggers out of
Jocks
or dagger poems in the slimy
bellies
of the owner-jews. Black poems to
smear on girdlemamma mulatto
bitches
whose brains are red jelly stuck
between 'lizabeth taylor's toes.
Stinking
Whores! we want "poems that
kill."
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into
alleys
and take their weapons leaving
them dead
with tongues pulled out and sent
to Ireland. Knockoff
poems for dope selling wops or
slick halfwhite
politicians Airplane poems,
rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
rrrrrrrrrrrrrrr . . .tuhtuhtuhtuhtuhtuhtuhtuhtuhtuh
. . .rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr . . .
Setting fire and death to
whities ass. Look at the Liberal
Spokesman for the jews clutch his
throat
& puke himself into eternity .
. . rrrrrrrr
There's a negroleader pinned to
a bar stool in Sardi's eyeballs
melting
in hot flame Another negroleader
on the steps of the white house
one
kneeling between the sheriff's
thighs
negotiating coolly for his people.
Aggh . . . stumbles across the
room . . .
Put it on him, poem. Strip him
naked
to the world! Another bad poem
cracking
steel knuckles in a jewlady's
mouth
Poem scream poison gas on beasts
in green berets
Clean out the world for virtue and
love,
Let there be no love poems written
until love can exist freely and
cleanly. Let Black people
understand
that they are the lovers and the
sons
of warriors and sons
of warriors Are poems & poets
&
all the loveliness here in the
world
We want a black poem. And a
Black World.
Let the world be a Black Poem
And Let All Black People Speak
This Poem
Silently
or LOUD
Source:
Selected Poetry of Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones
(1979) |
