Talking Drums

The West African News Magazine

Poets' Corner

This Is

Vulgar abstraction
Hypothetical construction
Raw deduction
Smell this logical foul
That if shit was gold
The poor would be taxed on the issue
From their asshole!

Dialectics

On my bookshelf
Baraka's selected works
Is erected
With tactical consciousness
For fundamental reference
Next to King James' version
of the christian bible.

In The End

In the end
You must know
It’s about love
This struggle for liberation
For self-determination
This fight to be
This rise against iniquity.

Poems from Images In the Yard by
Lasana M. Sekou,
Staten Island, New York US






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