ArtPolitik

Chance/Dance of Discourse

queens & kings

“Each is given a bag of tools
A shapeless mass and the book of rules”
-Heptones (Book Of Rules /H Johnson, B Llewellyn)

people like pulling other people
into their drama –
their rhythms
their grammar
their forms of expression
their anger

but no one’s pain
can answer
one in pain
and through manifestation
and through evolution
all pains
become the same

locked deep in narcissism
a particular kind
are the biggest cry-babies
while saying it is others who whine

the taxes they pay
are less than the taxes for you
not being of the patrician order,
your rent is always due

it is the strain
that fatigues the frame
tries the Spirit
forces one against the grain

use this pressure
to connect to your source
test your measure
resurrect a higher force

attain
your heavenly domain
stem the cost
guide the lost

November 24th, 2011 Posted by | Commentary, Community, Thoughtography | no comments

peep

“Aim your eye
to the horizon”
-Miroslav Vitous (Magical Shepherd)

“People are running to a past
From where no one came
To leave us all to fight
What’s only the devil’s game”
Graham Central Station (People)

“Black nigger white nigger standing in the dark
Listen to the rhythm of the bass boom
Black nigger takes a hit sending up a spark”
-Joe Jackson (Battleground)

all people
are people of color
all people have people
who love and care for one another

when will we learn
to look into all hearts
to find the goodness of Souls
without tearing Spirits apart?

frown
upon a commonality found
on what always seems
to be only a battleground

November 24th, 2011 Posted by | Commentary, Community, Race, Spiritography, Thoughtography, Uncarved Blog | no comments

big picture

“So Mr. Big
You’d better watch out
When only you hang around me
Oh for you now
I will dig
A great big hole in the ground”
-Free / Fraser.Rodgers.Kossoff.Kirke (Mr. Big)

if the republicans
want to see a wealthy, compromising,
intelligent black president fail,
what about the rest of us
lower class, working black males?

never trust a demon,
union, or non-union

November 20th, 2011 Posted by | Activism, Class, Commentary, Community, Thoughtography, Uncarved Blog | no comments

no thanks for giving day

“Color prejudice, misnamed “racial prejudice,” permeates every pore of United States society and remains a universal institutional disease.”
-Paul Robeson Jr.

“If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.”
-President John F. Kennedy

“See yourself in every eye you fear to look into”
-Alice Walker

“I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.”
-Eric Hoffer

“People are turning resources into waste faster than nature can turn waste back into resources.”
-James Leape

when you believe in lies
you receive liars
for leaders

when you ignore
true morality,
you become morally ignorant
of the truth –

this is what has happened
to this new country
as a European facsimile

racism/fascism, all relative
to white supremacy
has led to a paralysis
of privilege and hypocrisy
which has evolved
into a most dysfunctional society
and a universally
inferior faction of higher-humanity

we need
a Forgiving Day
granted by the WopanaaK
and the slave –
a Forgiving Day
to save the harvest
of goodness betrayed

November 16th, 2011 Posted by | Activism, Commentary, Community, Lyric Sanaa | no comments

the amorphous reality

“And it’s like, well, it looked like a giant spotlight shining down on me, and I call it transmolecularization, my whole body was changed into something else. I could see through myself. And I went up. Now I call that an energy transformation because I wasn’t in human form. I thought I was there, but I could see through myself.”
-Sun Ra (from the book “Space is the Place: the lives and times of Sun Ra” by John F. Szwed)

“What the Doctor explained
was that we had fought
that we had patiently
rushed into our trans
formed
selves.”
-Amiri Baraka (Funk Lore)

“you got to fight for your mind
while you got the time”
-Ben Harper (Fight For Your Mind)

that most feared
is being out
of one’s mind

and if there were
a conventional solution or total cure
it would be a multi-billion dollar industry
for sure

but what if some minds
are designed
not to be so quantified
and defined –

like the infinite void
itself
beyond measure of what can be seen, heard,
or felt?

there is a reality
to that without form or shape
which existed long before
bodies, beliefs, faith, or fate

how do i know? –
i have been there
in the frightful wilderness –
the unknown zone of loneliness and despair

it may be connected
to a lineage of slavery
of untrusting lives
and splintered families

it may be an ancient gift
lacking in current clarity
passed through hidden variables
thought to be protected genetically

be careful of those
who profit from your sickness
they may be of the kind who seek to gain
by keeping others weakest

hone your own healing powers,
protect your given shape and form
let love lead the way
to guide you from wickedness and harm

November 16th, 2011 Posted by | Activism, Commentary, Community, Maiysha, Spiritography, Thoughtography, Uncarved Blog | no comments