Crabs and stabs

evenwheniLie

 

 

 

 

……hold me back so you can get ahead, soon we’ll both be dead and off the grid, never achieving just like they said, in the end we’ll be the only ones that bled. Always talking about the land of the lost that never was, we never had Vibranium I have to explain to them,  it’s not real girl, get in the real world, and stop looking for a thrill, we already had Earl the Pearl, we need to get up that hill for real. But watch your own people, they’ll stop your sequel, don’t want you as their equal, internal hate is thicker then a tree trunk, even though we bunk and sunk together, our own will split you in half; suffering succotash, then throw your body parts in the trash, wouldn’t be surprised if they start doing the huckle-buck to Johnny Cash.

  • Author: EvenwheniLie (Pseudonym) (Online Online)
  • Published: January 16th, 2023 05:18
  • Category: Unclassified
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  • L. B. Mek

    (another poignant write, dear Poet
    forgive me for posting some quotes
    from James Baldwin below
    just, to give a sense of how long
    such statistic realities have been curating/decimating
    the lives of our young brothers
    used as scaffolding, stepping stones
    to paint that mirage castle
    they name, 'the American dream'...)
    'Other people cannot see what I see whenever I look into your father's face, for behind your father's face as it is today are all those other faces which were his.'

    'I know what the world has done to my brother and how narrowly he has survived it'
    taken from a later by James Baldwin to his nephew
    ( https://progressive.org/magazine/letter-nephew/
    )

    • evenwheniLie

      Time is at a standstill for black on black crime in America, as well as abroad I suspect. Earlier strings have already been pulled, that began our death walk, the strings being pulled today are strings subsequently being pulled by our own descent.

      • L. B. Mek

        we're born into this mess
        we try and fight, to tilt the balance
        at least for our generation
        our fury burning untameably bright
        then, when grey hairs visit
        we find that spark for vindication
        begins to relent, becoming life weary
        we're left to watch-on, as younger muscles
        pick-up the struggle, a few miles
        back, from our own starting line
        and we ponder, while those crimson rivers
        levels, rise
        year on year
        shoes on telephone lines, the only 'culture'
        not yet stolen from us
        and we watch, we contemplate, we lament
        not knowing what anyone can do, to change
        the next, next generations fated inheritance
        of endless strife
        'we too, know why the caged birds sings
        like Maya Angelou and Paul Lawrence Dunbar'
        our shackles and cages, removed
        yet that legacy of struggle, present
        in our every breath
        our youth, running
        to gangland brotherhood, as salvation
        escaping fatherless homes
        and mothers, singing of TLC waterfalls..
        how morbidly, funny
        Malcolm X, asked his generation
        how all the money accumulated by black Americans
        starting out, in those same ghettos
        never effected sustained change, in those same ghettos
        imagine if he was around today
        to witness how there's a black 'class', in America
        with sweet sixteen, society dances
        and families with generations of Harvard graduates
        yet, click on a news channel and its a warzone
        they're depicting, in those same ghettos
        a few streets down from
        the white house, itself...
        (descent indeed, dear Poet
        we be descendant's
        of a seemingly endless, descent)



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