let my people be

a fast is a slower death
than a bullet



i can survive on saliva
dont want your vinegar



seeking fingernails
for carbohydrate

i can survive from the rain,
and eat my ackees raw.



i will share mud cookies with the haitians
oppressed by the rising price of governance

will survive the first 40 percent of fat loss
give me 60 days

surpass ghandi's 20
to let you know how serious things get

pain becomes a floating duck
in a heavier sea

what on your plate is left for me
when i push your free meals aside

let nature decide my fate



while me lean akimbo
on hells gate


oh you thought you could control me,
thought i wasnt ready to face my oppressors

i have longed for the day
i salivate, cant wait to meet herod
to press the blade of patience
into hitlers already dead heart


plan me a great vacation
on a funeral pyre
between the clashing rocks
that snipped the ship of the Argonauts
then tell me how to crush a soul
huey told his shooter
you can kill my body
but you will never kill who i am
why i stand
i already birthed offspring
in the minds of generations to come

my disease has spread
there is no cure
only treatment

for the weak of heart
and those unwilling to stand in truth.

boots are clean,
though my clothes are ragged

need to get a little hungrier
to complete the tag team

my partners in refugee camps
plantocratic societies and racist holding cells

politicians need to feel their stomachs swell
as the acids within go to dinner on their own flesh.


let that instinct make decisions for my people
let those pangs be our soldiers
not sure how much time i have left to tell you.
but let my people be.