Gary Hicks 

After Shaka Sankofa
 
it's time to stop beating 'round the bush
and to whip shrub dove-yuh's ass!
 
this is a call to battle. this is a call to get rid
of a republican congress and their charlton heston
gun-totin' "from my cold dead hands" yahoo crowds
 
backed by the hitler wannabe fratricidal order of pigs
 
promisekeepin'(if only they could make one)men of the
house about to be repossessed
 
the good ol' boys and girls of the pointed hood pointed head
sleep walking in their sheets chumps of the white carmelia
 
jesus took one look at this sorry ass crew and wept
 
and then he reminded us once again that if we bit our tongues
the very stones would speak
 
like in times past when they went thwack! thwack! upside
the heads of legionaires from those in ancient palestine
to those blue brown black shirted protectors
 
of shrub dove-yuh's daddy's new world order based on an
original idea by failed viennese painter adolf schickelgruber
 
but i digress------------
 
like i said it's time to stop beating 'round the bush
and whip shrub dove-yuh's ass
 
this is not an expression of frustration this is a clarion
call to stop the creation of a fourth reich by way of a
shrub dove-yuh fast track weimar republican majority
 
pat puke-cannon biding his time before he makes his bid
for fuhrer
 
bolstered by christian right aryan nation sieg heil types
 
and scorned fulani farrakhan larouche brownshirts
 
and corporate monies going into coffers of those who claim
to be the people who would form a more perfect union without
unions
 
aided and abetted by workers in white skins and sometimes in white sheets
but more often in blue meanie uniforms
 
who long ago gave up anything resembling a birthright and
know pottage as a distant memory of canned dogscraps by hormel
before the bosses fired them from there too
 
in alliance with ministers of color who forgot their gospel
forgot that gospel means good word of victory for the wretched
of the earth
 
and now crawl militantly hat in hand making vociferous demands
for more more wehrmacht on our streets
 
to teach young men and women the ways of KKK kinder kirche kuche
children church kitchen compartments of our segregation upon
pain of jail or death for those who refuse to learn and
 
have you checked your watch?------------------------
 
it's time to stop beating 'round the bush
and whip shrub dove-yuh's ass
 
dove-yuh who has given both serial killing and texas afrikanerdom a bad name
 
dove-yuh who thinks the people are children and gives the words
compassionate conservatism to his brand of child molesting
 
dove-yuh whose money and family and politics have resurrected and
given new definition to old words: swill, trough
 
dove-yuh who reminds us that the panthers were right about folks like them:
 
they are low-natured beasts
 
they have no respect for the rights of the people
 
they are foul traducers usually found masquerading as the victims of an
unprovoked attack
 
the good news of victory is that today's pig is tomorrow's bacon
 
but to put the bacon on the table we must------------
 
stop beating 'round the bush
and whip shrub dove-yuh's ass
 
whip shrub dove-yuh in city and suburb in countryside and on every
mountainside let freedom ring! as we
 
whip shrub dove-yuh in office and field and mine and mill
 
whip dove-yuh in the shedhouse as a foretaste of glory divine
of what gore's in for if he makes it to the white house
 
whip dove-yuh in the cotton corn and wheatfields show him old times there
were never forgotten by us either
 
catch dove-yuh with fishnets, dragnets, and on the internet
and whip him again
 
take to the streets in los angeles and tell the party of jackasses and
slaveholders: we'll settle accounts with you after the first tuesday in
november but for now
 
hand us al gore's two by four platform planks ( he ain't using them anyway)
so we can
 
whip dove-yuh's ass with sticks which in the hands of democrats are only
good for white picket fences
 
but before that go to philadelphia and tell that god's own party elephant
something he'll never forget:
 
we will turn the white house victory in november into a white woodshed no
matter the winner
 
and by now you've surmised that this wanted to be verse but after what you
did to shaka sankofa
 
and after you made me feel vulnerable because gary graham are my first and
middle name
 
and after yet one more time you have reminded me that the color of blood is
neither forgotten nor forgiven
 
i say shaka sankofa presente!
 
it's time to stop beating 'round the bush
and whip shrub dove-yuh's ass
 
and i have not yet begun
to read the fuckin' poem.

it's time 
 

 

 

 

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