Obtuse Acute Angles
by Kemet Mawakana, a.k.a. the Seven Foot Poet
To hear this original work performed by the Seven Foot Poet, click the flash player below.
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Rules apply to people who cannot break them.
Laws apply to people who do not make them.
Money is a magical myth mimicking the pursuit of happiness.
Uncle Sam has no wife.
Content not to be last and ignore being next to it.
FISA courts piss on the constitution but don’t tell anybody – it’s a secret.
If you never look for the easy way out – you’ll never find it.
Hopes fly through the air without F.A.A. approval.
Hollywood’s historical curriculum is corrupt
crammed with criminal subliminal messages that white men
saved the so-called Africans?!?!
“The Statue of Liberty is a Prostitute” -- and 90s poets steal from
the Last Poets who stole from Nina Simone
who stole from someone who was stolen.
Minds never used can’t be recycled.
I better the we unless they want ours.
If I was born a Buddhist in Beijing would I believe that
the entire continent of North America
was going to burn in eternal damnation?
Interest is used so you always owe for something you never borrowed.
The world is small enough
for the principal to catch you when you cut school
and big enough
to swallow you whole for not doing your homework.
Neither the Lincoln nor Jefferson memorials have glass
thus allowing historians to invoke dead presidents
and throw stones of abolition at others.
Everybody is polluted in spite of environmental statutes.
If the Pilgrims were so great why did they run away from their problems?
If the Protestants had a work ethic why did they need slaves?
All indigenous people are savages
unless their tribe has a media consultant.
Casinos is a funny looking word sorta like mob or Congress.
The founding fathers were pedophiles
or maybe they weren’t
but now that I’ve said it the tabloids will print it with photographs.
Freedom of speech is in every country except America
people are just scared to say it.
By Kemit Mawakana (aka The Seven-Foot Poet)
Peace (when appropriate) War (when necessary)
Copyright 1996.
Kemit Mawakana (aka “The Seven-Foot Poet”) is a highly acclaimed spoken-word artist, and has published two books A . . . Z . . . Infinity and Crucifixion of My Soul. The collective body of his works presented weekly in BAR are in tribute to Listervelt Middleton, Dr. John Henrik Clarke, and “For The People”. Currently, he is a facilitator at AYA Educational Institute (www.ayaed.com) and can be reached at sevenfootpoet@gmail.com.
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