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Poetry Corner: The Equation
The Equation by Cosmo the Poet FREEDOM = Department 3C + Yard 4B – MONEY: Do you know what it is like to be caged like an animal? In a box that is unfit to be healthy for human growth? For deep inside the bowels of cellblock 4B are men and women Who breathe like me, hurt like me, Cry like me, and are yearning to be free – like [...]
Poetry Corner: A Worker’s Speech to a Doctor by Bertholt Brecht
A Worker’s Speech to a Doctor [Excerpt] by Bertholt Brecht We know what makes us ill. When we’re ill word says You’re the one to make us well For ten years, so we hear You learned how to heal in elegant schools Built at the people’s expense And to get your knowledge Dispensed a fortune That means you can make us well. Can you make us well? When [...]
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Poetry Corner – Questions for “Shomrim” by Leonard Cohen
Questions for Shomrim By Leonard Cohen And will my people build a new Dachau And call it love, Security, Jewish culture For dark-eyed children Burning in the stars Will all our songs screech Like the maddened eagles of the night Until Yiddish, Arabic, Hebrew, and Vietnamese Are a thin thread of blood clawing up the side of Unspeaking steel chambers I know you, Chaverim The lost young summer nights of our childhood [...]
Poetry Corner: Age is Creeping Up by Norman Molesko
AGE IS CREEPING UP By Norman Molesko https://www.lapoetsociety.org/norman-molesko I write about aging reality, my reality and the realities of those I meet and know. For me it is human to share, whether walking or in a wheelchair. Various seniors and oldies feel similar in many ways, jaw boning at a market place, complaining in a doctor’s office, letting hair down over the phone. They relate twinges and pains, illnesses and [...]
Poetry Corner: That Man’s America
That Man’s America by S. A. Gerber I struggle to stand on the wave covered deck. My work boots are held together with glue and screws. I impress the Liberals with my ragged appearance. I will work until they say stop. I will eat their leftover sandwiches and drink free coffee. I smoke on their loading docks and write poetry. I accept their pay and do not ask for more. I [...]
Poetry Corner: Political prisoner Eric King
MORE: by political prisoner Eric King The universe continually expands but my world stays stagnant these walls never move, these windows never open. I remember tho, I’ve been someone else’s pain, Made other's space feel like their own ADX the goal then, it seems isn’t just to breathe fresh air but to breathe it as a better me To never be someone else’s warden What good is being free if only to [...]
Hip-Hop vs. Columbus
Goodbye Columbus A compilation of Rap lyrics exposing the colonial, white supremacist reality of Columbus, compiled by XXL magazine. “Dig It!” by The Coup “Gunned us, stunned us exploited and they hung us/I'd like to take a moment to say, 'Fuck Columbus!'” “The Illest” by Immortal Technique, Featuring Jean Grae and Pumpkinhead “My arrival is genocidal like Christopher Columbus” —Immortal Technique “Around My Way (Freedom Ain’t Free)” by Lupe [...]
Poetry Corner: To Roosevelt by Ruben Dario
To Roosevelt by Rubén Darío [Excerpt] The United States is powerful and great. When they shake there's a deep tremor That passes through the enormous vertebrae of the Andes. If you cry out, it is heard like the roar of a lion. Hugo already said to Grant: "The stars are yours." (The Argentine sun barely shines And the Chilean star rises...) You are rich; You add to the cult of Hercules [...]
Poetry Corner: How Far?
How Far…? by Nia Asante How far back do we roll amerika? How far back do we go? If we roll back Roe do we go back to whips and chains? Do we go back to chastity belts? We still have marriages that are arranged. Honor killings and genital mutilation should seem strange! How far is too far amerika? Do we build you with chain gangs? Is [...]
Poetry Corner: “The End and the Beginning”
"The End and the Beginning": by Wisława Szymborska After every war someone has to clean up. Things won't straighten themselves up, after all. Someone has to push the rubble to the side of the road, so the corpse-filled wagons can pass. Someone has to get mired in scum and ashes, sofa springs, splintered glass, and bloody rags. Well-known in her native Poland, Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012) received international recognition when she won [...]