black America

do you kill me

or do you teach me? 

do you love me

or push me away?

whatever the cost

i will never go away

but multiply and creep into your children’s minds 

grow like the boogie man

become realities

subtract the living

pour brews for the dead

divide families

as gangs set up retaliations

2 continue towards armageddon

as mothers weep

curse my name 

as papa drinks

tries 2 remember what he taught

and what he never will

brother 2 sister

, try 2 fill in the spaces

of the missing link

babies ask, “where he gone?

when he coming back?

where my daddy?

why mama crying?

why everyone crying?”

it’s Christmas and jesus was resurrected and your father’s dead

we do it like

delilah 2 samson

jacob 2 esau

cain 2 abel

judas 2 jesus

sold him for 30 pieces of golf am i my brother’s keeper?

no, i’m my brother’s killer

don’t smile, sun

ain’t no brother shit, sun every nigger for them self, sun born by your self, sun

live for your self, sun

every nigger got 2 protect self, sun

every nigger feel the bullet for your self, sun every nigger shit in their drawers

cough their blood for self, sun

every nigger in a pine box for self, sun unmarked grave for self, sun

every nigger serve time

‘cause when he killed him

he was thinking of self, sun

i’ll be your dubois 2 marcus

elijah 2 malcolm

jesse 2 fararakhan

black man 2 black woman

the powerless who fight among themselves for crumbs i’ll be your papa 2 mama

when he whooping her ass i’ll be the elder 2 youth one die sooner

one die later

but neither never lived

we do it like delilah 2 samson jacob 2 esau

cain 2 abel

judas 2 jesus

sold him for 30 pieces of gold am i my brother’s keeper?

no, i’m my brother’s killer