1
America is about to fall apart
As the result of being misbegotten
Conceived in a corruption from the start
Now causing it to turn completely rotten
Incapable of doing what it says
Because of doing what caused it to grow
The heroics America portrays
Are from its good old “dog and pony show”
And now the show is done. The curtains fall
The inner workings of the tricks revealed
The sham no longer holds us in its thrall
The truth can now no longer be concealed
And what is to result from this collapse?
A Phoenix rising from ashes… perhaps
2
There is danger of a nervous breakdown
From coming in close contact with the facts
Details of a big inter-racial shakedown
Including some sharp change-of-heart attacks
Brought on once the fact had been made known
That a tragic faux pas has occurred
The fact that indisputably has shown
America went back on its sworn word
In the very delicate condition
This nation remains in concerning race
Our taking any radical position
Blows America’s mind right to its face
And some would want to begin pulling triggers
Shoot down all of you “uppity niggers”
3
One day we weren’t citizens, next day we were
That did the trick the United States claims
But now back to facts it must defer
So in one day remove all of our names
From the rolls of U.S. Citizens
Where legally we never should have been
Refer to us as “U. S. Denizens”
In the political role we are in
The U.S. government’s move to include
The slaves among its subjects as it did
Became “involuntary servitude”
Which the 13th Amendment does forbid
In addition to a reparation
Reimbursement’s due for trickeration
4
U. S. Denizens we are who dwell
Within the borders of the U.S.A.
Which legally as far as we can tell
Is nowhere we are still required to stay
We can cross its borders should we wish
It is where we for centuries domiciled
And have previously sought to accomplish
Equality. But now are reconciled
To the dictates that are color lined
We depart in willing acquiescence
Overjoyed that we are not confined
No longer condemned to each other’s presence
And moving right along toward better days
We each can now put in our better plays
5
That you owe us is just as obvious
As is the fact you don’t intend to pay
An obligation to which you’re oblivious
According to the government today
The debt is one of the bygones let be
Something incurred by long gone generations
But now must be excused regrettably
Although we made significant donations
You do not feel they ought to be repaid
You seem instead to expect great ovations
For the exemplary mark that you have made
As one of history’s aggressor nations
Instead of one of genuine gratitude
You take a “try and get it” attitude
6
“Try and get it”? Yes, indeed we will
We will try and get it and succeed
By convincing you, you need us still
And proceeding then to meet your need
You have to undergo some therapy
To curb the aggressiveness, you vaunt
So you don’t feel you summarily
Can take whatever it is you may want
The childishness of any brutal bully
That you exhibit, behind a disguise
We will rip off and expose you fully
To the view of those who scrutinize
Totalitarian, you may rule the world
But not with phony freedom flags unfurled
7
You the Totalitarian man you are
Threatening all who may stand in your way
Do not apply mascara to the scar
So to disguise the part that you portray
Do not remove the patch over your eye
And do not hide your cannonade away
Keep up the spirit you are guided by
Remain the raging pirate, the Viking
The warriors come from the frozen north
Seizing whatever you found to your liking
When on pirate raids you venture forth
The aspect of the predator toward the prey
Is all that is expected, anyway
8
If a long life is what one is after
Then better not confront the fascist man
Who will kill and cover the disaster
To overwhelm us any way he can
And how do we confront such an opponent
Who would overwhelm us with his conquest
Deception has become its main component
He would not win the contest were it honest
But he will give you reason to regret
Any time you offer him a challenge
The insecure reaction that you get
By demonstrating superior talents
Learning from the “fair and balanced news”
You may have come in first, but still… you lose
9
“The Man” to be conquered must be divided
His house set against itself as it were
His teen-aged daughter has to be provided
Alternatives that will appeal to her
His son must be given a revelation
His woman must have an epiphany
His brother must be offered his salvation
All under a comforting canopy
Of harmony and rhythm and of joy
A countermanding tone has to be set
By a vibration given to destroy
The cacophony “The Man” will beget
Obstructing him by rhythm and by rhyme
In blatant commitment of further crime
10
The family of man is all susceptible
To seductive suggestions of joys
Whether or not they are called respectable
Joy has great appeal to girls and boys
The appeal comes from the strong harmonic
Motion of the energy released
In vibrations that can be a tonic
By which angry attitude’s appeased
The savage breast is known to have been soothed
By charms of which music is possessed
The path to peace and joy was always smoothed
By the energy music’s expressed
Nothing comes from anything that lives
To provide what sounds of music gives
11
The energy expressed by the Tois Tois
Silenced the guns of Afrikaans police
More power than their weapons could employ
A power that has power to increase
An energy that feeds upon the force
That it derives from its own self-expression
The people provide power from its source
Developed in their grand Tois Tois procession
Black rhythm is the power to pursue
To bring to any power confrontation
The Tois Tois is the sort of thing to do
To cause an uptight white great consternation
The more taught any uptight white is strung
The greater disappointment to his young
12
Life is basically to be enjoyed
By any means that may be of avail
The key to entertainment is employed
To release uptight prisoner from the jail
Of authorities seeking full control
Of whatever aspect they can grab
To charge a fine, a bribe, a fee, a toll
And incarcerate all they can nab
Life is basically out to avoid
Speed traps lying in wait up ahead
Life is trying not to be annoyed
By too many trials before you’re dead
How long your life goes and how it stops
Depends on how you get on with cops
13
Since you always were called “a black nigger”
Always had skin color to defend
Up against a crowd that’s ten times bigger
Without that much capital to spend
Living in a capitalist system
Seeking to have it affirm its action
So white man pulls “black niggers” up with him
You have been bamboozled to distraction
That is not something to be expected
To eventually happen in due course
That’s not how the food chain is connected
Food chain connections are made by force
If he affirms his action ‘cause you’re black
Because he is white he’ll take it back
14
Not that the white man is a bad fellow
In this case, because that isn’t so
There is competition as we well know
For everything that Mother Earth will grow
Appetites all have “minds of their own”
All demanding regular supplies
For your hunger you cannot atone
Nor can you forgive your appetites
For survival too much is demanded
To allow for affirmative actions
Life is simply not that helping handed
It requires too many satisfactions
So many obligations to be met
How affirmative can the action get?
15
The idea of rights and equality
Is of a somewhat suspect origin
Does not reflect domestic policy
We were not brought over to be asked in
That idea developed out of the confusion
Created when Africans were conscripted
In violation of the constitution
As if entrance requirements have been lifted
Who all became Americans en masse
Conscripted into a citizenship
That is by definition second class
Slavery without need for a chain or whip
Who ever suggested that civil rights
Were something for which a Negro fights
16
“No rights a white man is bound to respect”
That doctrine still remains upon the books
The Supreme Court put it into effect
And it still stares at anyone who looks
The nonsense about white Southern pride
Requiring the Confederate flag be hoisted
Suggests the Dred Scott case has been retried
And on us its decision once more foisted
How dare a man deny another rights
A predator of such pomposity
It is his own humanity he spites
Exhibiting unmerited ferocity
The “Peculiar Institution” was ruled out
But still has the benefit of the doubt