the shape of state emblems
Somewhere on the west coast, the third neighbor over doesn’t care about Maroon history…
and you’ve gone and forced his hand. This whole city started with an arranged strata
matrimony. Middleclass-ness, if the sky were to belong in a poem. The seat next to me is a place
of panic. Cops excitedly thinking, “boy, my rock-n-roll is going well.” Riding human flesh through
the city. Cars bouncing off of your best friends. A chattel-man consciousness bogged down; a
death of white purpose mainly. Devil, you gonna show up here and do what? Show me how bad
your feelings were hurt…
A Sketch about Genocide
A San Francisco police chief says, “Yes, you poets make points. But they are all silly,”
Police chief sewing a mouth onto a mouth
Police chief looking straight through the poet
Flesh market both sides of the levy
Change of plans both sides of the nonviolence
On no earth
Just an earth character
His subordinate says, “Awkward basketball moves look good on you, sir … Yes, we are
everywhere, sir … yes, unfortunately for now, white people only have Black History … we will
slide the wallpaper right into their cereal bowls, sir … Surveil the shuffle.”
I am a beggar and all of this day is too easy
I want to see all of the phases of a wall
Every age it goes through
Its humanity
Its environmental racism
We call this the ordeal blues
Now crawl to the piano seat and make a blanket for your cell
Paint scenes of a child dancing up to the court appearance
And leaving a man,
but not for home
Atlantic ocean charts mized in with parole papers
Mainstream funding (the ruling class’s only pacifism)
Ruling class printing judges (fiat kangaroos)
Making judges hand over fist
Rapture cop packs and opposition whites all above a thorny stem
Caste plans picked out like vans for the murder show
anglo-saints addicting you to a power structure
you want me to raise a little slave, don’t you?
bash his little brain in
and send him to your civil rights
No pain
Just a white pain
Delicate bullets in a box next to a stack of monolith scriptures
(makes these bullets look relevant, don’t it?)
I remember you
Everywhere you lay your hat is the capital of the south
The posture you introduced to that fence
The fence you introduced to political theory
If you shred my dreams, son
I will tack you to gun smoke
The suburbs are finally offended
this will be a meditation too
I Imitate You
Picture, 1960s newspaper clippings and teeth hanging on a string—- Like a book of life
I’m in the kitchen with my would-be killer
Picking their canines out of a mouth harp
Cigarette-ing a pen
Calling Black Fire to prayer
unscrewing the blue
I am played down
The aim to only die for money once
mouth harp prepared:
Ladies and gentlemen: we know what you all are not
doing. Mainly you all are not leaving the universe to its
childhood.
A church signals another church with mirrors and nose-drips
The spirit-world up and starts murdering city trees
Our psychic re-break
sleeping-in-my-car Sundahy chores
allegory of new hard R’s
Or folk tale about a wolf’s tongue in the cartons of cheap milk
Trace amounts of white sheet on a politician’s teleprompter
A glass case grows in Brooklyn
Lower Ninth Ward houses play hop scotch and leap frog like white children
while cops wave their bills at the world
The news cameras follow
a teenager’s descent into hell
I have grown up a little bit lately
Almost becoming inanimate will do that for you
activist peril and new millenium jug music
or the bottle you‘d rather throw at your head than drink
no going to regular-people jail/no being hunted by regular-people cops”
“Believe In the Street” is my first thought
Is my parallel first name
A feat in spiritual equilibrium, I am waiting for God in front of a container factory
Put another way:
Yawning after a night in jail feels like keeping busy
Feels like imitating yourself severely
a bar code no more
nor new junkie’s angst
one step ahead of every plantation owner in your pocket
The Lord’s blues
I am eating every imagination in the room
looking through Camden windows with perfect Zen concentration
I understand the constitution and all the drugs it promised
Looking at shapes martyred by an imperialist state
Jail barges on a grandmother’s table
couple poems away from your class suicide
“May the white citizens council steady your hand.”
artists ordered to embroider “Enemy of the people” onto millions of pillow cases.
Aiyana Jones sown into body temperatures
A cue to cook Brooklyn
Children watching and identifying with people
The man you made out of a face card
The most uncooperative object in a cell
Police state only a few inches from your address
I talked to a class’less people today
They were not essentially overworked nor military captains
They were not wage-washed nor inbred in a Victorian series
Maybe I am the last white man on earth
All I dream is physical death
Thinking about God/and God empty
In clumps of prison, my poem
my cubist-remade scar
my Saturn for adults
my junkie industrialism
I knew my father as much as I want to be known