BlAcKpOeMoLoGy

the civil rights era/the BEATLES/the SUPREMES/both the KOREAN/

& VIETNAM wars/the 1963 march on Washington/the first man to walk on the moon/

the KENNEDY klan/MEDGER W EVERS/DR M. L. KING, Jr.,/

& a brother named MALCOLM/a brother who replaced his slave name/

to El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz & his outlook on life/which caused so much confusion/

that had some settling for camping out at WOODSTOCK/

while singin’ & gettin’ high/& sunbathin’ in the nude/LSD trippin’/

rather than thinkin’ about the killin’ of a black PRINCE & KING/

& other noble men of color . . ./

Not to mention/the battle’ at KENT STATE & ATTICA STATE PRISON . . ./

battle’ that caused the death of innocent: students, sons, brothers & fathers . . . /&

I am the product of: (Enters man wearing beige)

musicals called HAIR/& the AGE of AQUARIUS/

& the Oscar going to LIZA M. instead of DIANA R./

& now we know why the LADY SANG THE BLUES . . ./

or why Sister Tyson opted to married Bro. Miles & create her very on "Sound . . . er"/

boycotts against Woolworths/LSD trippin’/& ridin’ white ladies/

while callin’ their mother SMACK/bein’ called a FLOWER CHILD/

the ERA movement & the burnin’ of 16-hour Bras/the Watergate Scandal/

sister NINA SIMONE singin’ "MISSISSIPPI GODDAMN"/

then/watchin’ her & brother JAMES "JIMMY" ARTHUR (JONES) BALDWIN/

dash off to EUROPE/

in order to seek creative freedom/only to find refuge in "Giovanni’s Room"/

sister ANGELA Y. DAVIS & sister NIKKI GIOVANNI/

two sisters lovin’ brothers/while/

still talkin’ about guns & startin’ revolutions/

& bein’ two total black women at the same time . . ./

while givin’ birth to a new GeNeRaTiOn/

& sister JoAnne Chesimard/

runnin’ from bein’ a target of J. EDGAR HOOVER legacy/

& the NJ State Troopers biases actions . . ./

which tried to:

" . . . defame, infiltrate & criminalize me . . ." (Spoken by the woman . . . )

her words, not mine/ (Man wearing beige, addresses the audience . . .)

that/

caused her to change her name to Assata Shakur & seek Castro’s help in Cuba/

(but lets not forget Castro’s selling of Cuban 17 year old boys . . ./

uhm, for God only know?)/

Perhaps, we should have asked Reinaldo Arenas?

oh, yes/let’ not forget about Patty Hearst/

& her Oscar performance or was it her daddy’s money?/&

I am the product of: (Enters man wearing blue)

"Please . . . Please . . . Please . . .," Mr. Postman/

brin’ MAMA her 1st & 2nd welfare check/on the 1st & 16th of every month/

4 U see/the LANDLORD is knocking at the front door/

while BIG DADDY waltzes out of the back door/BIG DADDY finally realized/

that he was no longer MAMAs sweet meat . . ./MAMA/did what she had to do/

she was young/uneducated & BLACK & she had ten lil mouth’ to feed/

the LANDLORD/the LANDLORD/u see didn’t have to knock anymo’/

cause he used his very own KEY . . ./&

I am the product of: (Man wearing beige)

JEAN CARNs singin’ "Free love"/SYLVESTER makin’ everyone "Feel Mighty Real"/& I was with DIANA ROSS/when she had her "Love Hangover"/

as I became envious of GLORIA GAYNOR/

as she chanted, "I Will Survive . . ."/all the way to the bank/

is it true? that DONNA SUMMER rode the coat tails of the Gay communities/

then turned her back on them when AIDS reared it’ ugly head/

saying something along the lines, that her "God" told her to do so . . ./

now, Donna who loves to love you baby?/&

I am the product of: (Enters man wearing red)

the death of Michael Stewart/a inner city youth/

who’s blood was spilled along the corridors of NYC police station . . ./

for being an graphic artist/yet Keith Harring/

became an icon at Andy Walhol’s Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.,/&