[Reader-list] amiria baraka
zehra rizvi
fatimazehrarizvi at hotmail.com
Tue Oct 8 01:41:49 IST 2002
dear sarai list,
some poetry from New Jersey's poet laureat...who the governor is trying to
fire. more info below.
looks like whack ass poetry to me...
but so does (some of) michael harpers shit but they be famous.
i like to think of them as the basquiats of poetry.
its like reading about rd berman and sd berman in fader magazine as just RD
and SD.
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does anyone where i can find good books, sites or information on amrita
shergil? (artist, pre partition).
thanks,
z
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>in case you haven't heard as yet:
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>Bill Could Let Governor Fire Poet Laureate
>New Jersey's poet laureate has been under fire lately because of a recent
>piece of work that referred to the Sept. 11 attacks and an alleged warning
>of
>the event given to Jews. Gov. James McGreevey has called for Amiri Baraka
>to
>resign from his post, but the poet has refused. The governor doesn't have
>the
>power to fire him, but it's something McGreevey is trying to do. He says
>legislation giving him that authority could be introduced in the coming
>days.
>The poet laureate position is a two-year term and comes with a $10,000
>stipend. The governor's new legislation would reportedly give him more
>control in hiring or firing anyone in that position. Baraka's "Somebody
>Blew
>Up America" was released in August. In it he writes, "who told 4,000
>Israeli
>workers at the Twin Towers to stay home that day?"
>
>
>http://www.amiribaraka.com/blew.html
>
>SOMEBODY BLEW UP AMERICA
>
> (All thinking people
> oppose terrorism
> both domestic
> & international…
> But one should not
> be used
> To cover the other)
>
> They say its some terrorist, some
> barbaric
> A Rab, in
> Afghanistan
>It wasn't our American terrorists
>It wasn't the Klan or the Skin heads
>Or the them that blows up nigger
>Churches, or reincarnates us on Death Row
>It wasn't Trent Lott
>Or David Duke or Giuliani
>Or Schundler, Helms retiring
>
>It wasn't
>the gonorrhea in costume
>the white sheet diseases
>That have murdered black people
>Terrorized reason and sanity
>Most of humanity, as they pleases
>
>They say (who say? Who do the saying
>Who is them paying
>Who tell the lies
>Who in disguise
>Who had the slaves
>Who got the bux out the Bucks
>
>Who got fat from plantations
>Who genocided Indians
>Tried to waste the Black nation
>
>Who live on Wall Street
> The first plantation
>Who cut your nuts off
>Who rape your ma
>Who lynched your pa
>
>Who got the tar, who got the feathers
>Who had the match, who set the fires
>Who killed and hired
>Who say they God & still be the Devil
>
>Who the biggest only
>Who the most goodest
>Who do Jesus resemble
>
>Who created everything
>Who the smartest
>Who the greatest
>Who the richest
>Who say you ugly and they the goodlookingest
>
>Who define art
>Who define science
>
>Who made the bombs
>Who made the guns
>
>Who bought the slaves, who sold them
>
>Who called you them names
>Who say Dahmer wasn't insane
>
> Who/ Who / Who/
>
>Who stole Puerto Rico
>Who stole the Indies, the Philipines, Manhattan
> Australia & The Hebrides
>Who forced opium on the Chinese
>
>Who own them buildings
>Who got the money
>Who think you funny
>Who locked you up
>Who own the papers
>
>Who owned the slave ship
>Who run the army
>
>Who the fake president
>Who the ruler
>Who the banker
>
> Who/ Who/ Who/
>
>Who own the mine
>Who twist your mind
>Who got bread
>Who need peace
>Who you think need war
>
>Who own the oil
>Who do no toil
>Who own the soil
>Who is not a nigger
>Who is so great ain't nobody bigger
>
>Who own this city
>
>Who own the air
>Who own the water
>
>Who own your crib
>Who rob and steal and cheat and murder
> and make lies the truth
>Who call you uncouth Who live in the biggest house
>Who do the biggest crime
>Who go on vacation anytime Who killed the most niggers
>Who killed the most Jews
>Who killed the most Italians
>Who killed the most Irish
>Who killed the most Africans
>Who killed the most Japanese
>Who killed the most Latinos
>
>Who/Who/Who
>
>Who own the ocean
>
>Who own the airplanes
>Who own the malls
>Who own television
>Who own radio
>
>Who own what ain't even known to be owned
>Who own the owners that ain't the real owners
>
>Who own the suburbs
>Who suck the cities
>Who make the laws
>
>Who made Bush president
>Who believe the confederate flag need to be flying
>Who talk about democracy and be lying
> WHO/ WHO/ WHOWHO/
>
>Who the Beast in Revelations
>Who 666
>Who decide
> Jesus get crucified
>
>Who the Devil on the real side
>Who got rich from Armenian genocide
>
>Who the biggest terrorist
>Who change the bible
>Who killed the most people
>Who do the most evil
>Who don't worry about survival
>
>Who have the colonies
>Who stole the most land
>Who rule the world
>Who say they good but only do evil
>Who the biggest executioner
>
>Who/Who/Who ^^^
>
>Who own the oil
>Who want more oil
>Who told you what you think that later you find out a lie
>Who/ Who/ ???
>
>Who fount Bin Laden, maybe they Satan
>Who pay the CIA,
>Who knew the bomb was gonna blow
>Who know why the terrorists
> Learned to fly in Florida, San Diego
>
>Who know why Five Israelis was filming the explosion
> And cracking they sides at the notion
>
>Who need fossil fuel when the sun ain't goin' nowhere
>
>Who make the credit cards
>Who get the biggest tax cut
>Who walked out of the Conference
> Against Racism
>Who killed Malcolm, Kennedy & his Brother
>Who killed Dr King, Who would want such a thing?
> Are they linked to the murder of Lincoln?
>
>Who invaded Grenada
>Who made money from apartheid
>Who keep the Irish a colony
>Who overthrow Chile and Nicaragua later
>
>Who killed David Sibeko, Chris Hani,
> the same ones who killed Biko, Cabral,
> Neruda, Allende, Che Guevara, Sandino,
>
>Who killed Kabila, the ones who wasted Lumumba, Mondlane , Betty Shabazz,
>Princess Margaret, Ralph Featherstone, Little Bobby
>
>Who locked up Mandela, Dhoruba, Geronimo,
>Assata, Mumia,Garvey, Dashiell Hammett, Alphaeus Hutton Who killed Huey
>Newton, Fred Hampton,
> MedgarEvers, Mikey Smith, Walter Rodney,
>Was it the ones who tried to poison Fidel
>Who tried to keep the Vietnamese Oppressed
>
>Who put a price on Lenin's head
>Who put the Jews in ovens,
> and who helped them do it
>Who said "America First"
> and ok'd the yellow stars
> WHO/WHO/ ^^
>
>Who killed Rosa Luxembourg, Liebneckt
>Who murdered the Rosenbergs
> And all the good people iced,
> tortured , assassinated, vanished
>
>Who got rich from Algeria, Libya, Haiti,
> Iran, Iraq, Saudi, Kuwait, Lebanon,
> Syria, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine,
>
>Who cut off peoples hands in the Congo
>Who invented Aids
>Who put the germs
> In the Indians' blankets
>Who thought up "The Trail of Tears" W
>
>ho blew up the Maine
>& started the Spanish American War
>Who got Sharon back in Power
>Who backed Batista, Hitler, Bilbo,
> Chiang kai Chek who WHO W H O/
>
>Who decided Affirmative Action had to go
> Reconstruction, The New Deal, The New
> Frontier, The Great Society,
>
>Who do Tom Ass Clarence Work for
>Who doo doo come out the Colon's mouth
>Who know what kind of Skeeza is a Condoleeza
>Who pay Connelly to be a wooden negro
>Who give Genius Awards to Homo Locus
> Subsidere Who overthrew Nkrumah, Bishop,
>Who poison Robeson,
> who try to put DuBois in Jail
>Who frame Rap Jamil al Amin,
>
>Who frame the Rosenbergs, Garvey,
> The Scottsboro Boys, The Hollywood Ten
> Who set the Reichstag Fire
>
>Who knew the World Trade Center was gonna get bombed
>Who told 4000 Israeli workers at the Twin Towers
> To stay home that day
>Why did Sharon stay away ?
> /
>Who,Who, Who/
> explosion of Owl the newspaper say
>the devil face cd be seen Who WHO Who WHO
>
>Who make money from war
>Who make dough from fear and lies
>Who want the world like it is
>Who want the world to be ruled by imperialism and national oppression and
>terror
> violence, and hunger and poverty.
>
>Who is the ruler of Hell?
>Who is the most powerful
>
>Who you know ever
>Seen God?
>
>But everybody seen
>The Devil
> Like an Owl exploding
>In your life in your brain in your self
>Like an Owl who know the devil
>All night, all day if you listen, Like an Owl
>Exploding in fire. We hear the questions rise
>In terrible flame like the whistle of a crazy dog
>
>Like the acid vomit of the fire of Hell
>Who and Who and WHO (+) who who ^
> Whoooo and Whooooooooooooooooooooo!
>
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> AMIRI B 10/01
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