Repo Tale Retold --- Re-Edited
A very wise man once said:
There’s nothing new under the sun
If it happened before,
it’s gonna happen again
If a J.I. sold out their best buddy,
they’re gonna sell out your best friend
That’s just how it is,
and that’s how it’s always been
It's the un-Just way people do Iscariot biz,
shop closed is always a tragic end
Every diverse token
that once culturally fit in,
when the times change,
they get tossed to the wind
And every corporate top
in need of a new profit spin,
picks up that discarded token
and slogan use it again
If a Balaam bum sold out their old buddy,
they’re gonna sell out your new friend
That’s just how the world is,
and that’s how it’s always been
Every flattering word spoken so buttery
at a private power luncheon setting,
can turn into a public bed-wetting
when the bladder mouth soils the sheets
Another Marx Peabody silken tongue rank thinning,
tough pillow talk changing of the propaganda Lenin
If you’ve heard that ol’ manifesto song before ...
put on your patriotic shoes,
because you’re gonna be marching once more
If a Jezebel busybody sold out her gossiping pal gals,
they are gonna sell out your grapevine group as well
That’s just way the story goes,
the same way as it began
A repo tale retold,
always have the same end
Creditors on a plastic card hustle boost,
says that mortgage bill is unpaid
Ghetto dwellers perched on a low roost,
J. Crow ‘bout getting slave wage
400-years of cotton free sweat labor:
Plantation-to-factory years
of getting tossed crumbs off the table
400-years of never getting nothing —
nothing but
bottom-of-the-boot ridicule
Heaven knows we deserve something:
Because that reparation train from Washington
is 400-years long overdue
That’s just the way Uncle Tom’s cabin door
always shut close,
but it’s gonna swing open in the gospel end
That’s the way this repo tale is gonna be
a-revision retold —
Darkies on a sunny move to a brighter send
Copyright © Freddie Robinson Jr. | Year Posted 2018
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