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...The colored pains are carved onto the back of my ancestors’ history.
My oppressors see my Africanness as a curse,
the rotten fruit of savagery, slavery, and the barbarity of colonization.
The blac...

MONOLOGUE OF AN EXILE

...Just one dusk at the terminus,
the hourglass will shatter.

No more pain,
no more suffering,
just the silence
of a penance without sentence.

My feelings,
a procession of punishments.

My ...

Pigman, Pigman, that's us Harrah we Are!

...
We all headed off from Chingford, from good old London Town
Us the McGregor Brothers, and 'Pigman' our murdering clown

Leaving the 'Turtle and Monkey' very close to 'Dorset Street'
Whe...

the hill of epitaphs

...In the dirty hands of poverty,
 Scavengers of the Republic of Enlightenment
 Quench their thirst under the eyelids of the proletarians.
 A sinecure of hard drugs
 To silence the lamentations of t...

Shadow Play

...He played in his father’s  shadow
with a wooden Kalashnikov.
Meanwhile the goats needed milking.

The sun daily entered the sky tower
calling air to prayer.
His father has been gone too long
h...

White Noise and the Motherload of Dark Matter

...
"White Noise and the Mother Load of Dark Matter" 

underneath the static
what exists 
is never seen nor heard

for what it truly is 
the eyes and mind 
retaliate in the ...

Awol In the Ixnayed Days

...
"AWOL in The Ixnayed Days"


Pieces of me 
were stolen 
long before 
the war 
cluster f****d 
its way
into the 
world today

The peace of me
swallowed
in the coma ...

Self Defence 2021

...[A slight rewrite of my 2018 poem]

In your modern nation
Your civilisation
Is under a threat from miniaturisation 
’cause one day they’ll make it and someone will fake it
A nice compact nuclea...

The Other Side of Vrbanya Bridge

...Their story haunts my memory, I'll tell it to you plain..
in the city of Sarajevo, a place war could never touch,
and hope it never will again.

Already thousands remain so silent under rock and ...

The Tragedy of Poet and Poetry

...Oh, how sweet you are, Russian poetry! How unapproachable! Let the poet up to your balcony while no one's looking. Spread thy close curtain, love-performing night, that…* But why don’t you send your ...

Echoes of His Master's Voice

...Pray,
If you should tell
All that you have bottled up
Who will you tell?
Who will believe you?
Stories of swollen head, slit lips
Blood, brimstone and bonfires 
Laboriously ignited to silence
...

Boo Hoo Politics

...(Boo Hoo Politics was Written following the Brexit and Trump
votes as an observation and not a political declaration.
A few years out of date now but perhaps still fresh
Enough to share)

Self Defence

...In your modern nation
Your civilisation
Is under a threat from miniaturisation 
’cause one day they’ll make it, in China they’ll fake it
A nice compact nuclear bomb...

That Clips on a rocket
...

Puppy Love Ain'T No Saviour

...Advance and dance towards destiny
Galumph
Defy the lie and cry of scrutiny
Triumph 

Over hurdles seen and unseen
Drive and dive to arrive
At the intersection where a queen
Awaits your appear...

A-W

...Americans, Algerians, Australian aborigines,
Corrupt leaders of the world involved in illegal activities.
Bloodthirsty bullies brazenly bombing bystanders,
Militaries full of corrupt army commande...

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