On the Outside Looking In

December 21, 2008

You never look
at me.
I often look
at you.

You have
those things
I am told
bring happiness.

I have
those things
I am told
bring shame.

I look into
your restaurant –

you spend
my week’s wages
in a night

so elegant
so white

table cloths
and candles
fine wine
and waiters.

I could go on
and on,

but I have been ordered
to move along…

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Can you?

September 2, 2008

Travel each new day
without thinking
you are better
or less than others.

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Class Warfare ?

May 28, 2008

Why not?
The rich are already
kicking our asses

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“class warfare” accuses Rush disapprovingly

May 24, 2008

Our country was born of
contempt for privilege.

Yet we are now besmirched

for having those same
patriotic opinions.

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They fly the flag on their golf carts

May 23, 2008

You are trailer trash
until they need you.

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[untitled] by Kalamu ya Salaam ( poem aka: whi/te boys gone to the moon )

January 21, 2008

whi/te boys gone
to the moon
plantin flags & stuff
why you boys goin
to the moon
dont yall think
yall done fucked up enuf
without messing
with somebody else’s world
in the beginning
it was africa
you just wanted to see
you said
& once having seen
commenced to fucking up
open up them china gates
& let’s hunt tigers in india
you whi/te boys sho nuff likes
what ever anybody else has
all ways got to be
digging in somebody’s bag
always got to be plantin flags & stuff
whi/te boys done gone
to the moon
just like they come here
talking bout it’s a
great adventure & we is
the first ones here
& plantin flags
whi/te boys gone to the moon
whi/te boys done gone to the moon
sho hope them lil brothers up there
dont show um how
to plant corn

– Kalamu ya Salaam

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divisiveness

January 4, 2008

divisiveness
keeps us separated –
easier to use

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new year assertion regarding true wealth

January 2, 2008

rises up…
wealth
true

does
not
tric
kle
d
o
w
n
.

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How to be a great teacher of self absorption

December 21, 2007

Put yourself on the cover
of every issue.
Name it after you.

Live in a mansion
with fourteen bathrooms
and only two asses.

Build an exclusive school
amidst great need –
create clones of yourself.

Go orgasmic over
shiny things
as if they bring happiness.

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When I Become Santa

December 14, 2007

We move operations south
to Newark, Watts, Bronx
East LA and ten thousand
other empty places.

We begin to make toys for souls.

Peaceful and playful
thoughtful and joyous toys.

Now
unafraid and knowing –
we will walk this earth
giving gifts.

image source

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