America loves
to kill
It has been killing
since it arrived here
many moons ago
Arriving on those ships
racked with poison,
disease,
Piss,
feces,
cruelty,
hate
and barbarism
It spilled the blood
of the ancestors
all over
mother nature’s floor
it spilled
until there was no more
resistance
to the theft
and rape
of the land
Then it brought
the black ones
the blue hues from
the motherland
the drummers,
the blacksmiths,
the artisans
and artists,
the mothers,
the weavers,
the spinners,
the storytellers
and put them
to the chain,
the whip
the penis,
and to death
if one nostril
flared
Then it struggled
against itself
to free itself
But it still brought
the rope,
the firing squad,
the electric chair,
then the needles
It has turned guns
upon itself
in every city,
Every suburb,
every county,
every parish
It has bombed itself
into pieces
then strung the pieces
together
and called it
progress
America
has a love affair
with killing
It will kill
with the Old Testament
in one hand
And the canon
in the other
It will kill the killers
to demonstrate that
killing is wrong
It glorifies killing
on the cathode ray tube
It makes killing
a trillion dollar industry
It puts killing
on the New York
Stock Exchange
You cannot get away
from the kill
If you’re in America
It kills you
in the ghettos and in the
barrios
It kills you
in the classroom and in the
courtroom
It kills you
in the factory
and in the coalmine
It kills you
down at the docks
and up on the
satellite towers
It kills you
If you eyeball it
America
kills the peacemakers
Remember
Medgar, and Martin
Malcolm
Remember
Emmett Till
and Fred Hampton
and Amadou Diaolo
and James Byrd
and Youssef Hawkins
and Sean Bell
they have killed
and are trying to kill
All political prisoners
Remember
George Jackson,
Jonathan Jackson,
Mumia,
Leonard,
Marshall,
the Cuban Five
Troy Davis
And it tries to kill
You
Because YOU
ARE
TROY DAVIS
Because WE
ARE
TROY DAVIS
The world
cries their innocence
And America
kills them anyway
Masturbating
over the magazines
and videotapes
of death
and destruction
drowning itself
in the elixir
of hate
and zero tolerance
As vultures
feasted on the brains of
dead indigenous
red people
as they
were completing their
Manifest Destiny
they prayed
for
No mercy
And in this
technological age
there is no mercy
in America
for it devises new ways
and pathogens
for mass destruction
Biological
Political
Economic
Environmental
Familial
and Spiritual
America
crunches numbers
on its kills
like its own
Census data
America
bathes in blood
like Elizabeth Bathory
America
nation builds
on top of indigenous
body parts
America drinks oil
and excretes
fascism
America
is the number one
gang banger
gangster rapper
Mafioso
terrorist sleeper cell
rogue nation
professional hit organization
of this
third planet
of the
solar system
America
washes itself
with bullets
and dries off
with genocide
This world
will never be free
as long as America is
locked and loaded
That is why
the innocent like
Troy Davis
die
because the prison bars
and our neighborhoods
and our communities
are shaped like
crosshairs
and in our oppression
we have become fatally
conspicuous
We need to
camouflage our existence
and Sun Tzu our tactics
and be the
Spook Who Sat By The Door
to eliminate the targets
on our backs
and turn this oppression
around
because America
has a hard-on
for our bones
it places them over mantle pieces
like antelope horns
and stuffed animal heads
within their secret society houses
and retreats
and situation rooms
We are the culmination
of the struggle
and resistance
and perseverance
and empowerment
of our ancestors
While America shouts
for more blood
more oil
more
conflict diamonds
more coal,
more
human trafficking
and more
of our silence
we shout
for solidarity
and peace and justice
and
freedom and human rights
and
all power to the people
There will
come a time
when America
will no longer Kill
and cannibalize
our people
when our ancestors
will rise up from their
resting places
and suffocate it
with its own
Manifest Destiny
because as it sows
so it shall
reap
There will
come a time
where the
United States
of America
will dissolve and dissipate
and wither
and will be reborn into
the United Workers
of America
the United families
of America
the United communities
of America
the United neighborhoods
of America
the United Peoples
of America
Those new seeds
will be sown
and we will be
the peace
we wish to seek
in the world
our generations
long thirst for Justice
quenched
our bellies of liberation
filled
our future
lain in the ground
of equality
It will be then
as we wipe dry
those Trails of Tears
and shut down
those prison cells
and welcome
our brown people
across open
borders
We will proclaim
to the world
finally
that America
loves to
LOVE
9/22/11
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