Don Lee's POETRY:
But He Was Cool, or: he even stopped for green lights
a poem to compliment other poems
Haki Madhubuti (Don Lee)
it was wild.
the bullet hit high.
(the throat-neck)
&from everywhere:
the motel, from under blushes and cars,
from around corners and across streets,
out of the garbage cans and from rat holes
in the earth
they came running.
with
guns
drawn
they came running
toward the King--
all of them
fast and sure--
as if
the King
was going to fire back.
they came running,
fast and sure,
in the
wrong
direction.
But He Was Cool,or: he even
stopped for green lights
super-cool
ultrablack
a tan/purple
had a beautiful shade.
he had a double-natural
that wd put the sisters to shame.
&his beads were imported sea shells
(from some blk/country i never heard of)
he was triple-hip.
his tikis were hand carved
out of ivory
&came express from the motherland.
he would greet u in swahili
&say good-by in yoruba.
woooooooooooo-jim he bes so cool &ill tel li gent
cool-cool is so cool he was un-cooled by other
niggers' cool
cool-cool ultracool was bop-cool/ice box cool so cool cold cool
his wine didn't have to be cooled, him was air conditioned cool
cool-cool/real cool made me cool--now ain't that cool
cool-cool so cool him nick-named refrigerator.
cool-cool so cool
he didn't know,
after detroit, newark, chicago &c.,
we had to hip
cool-cool/ super-cool/ real cool
that
to be black
is
to be
very-hot.
a poem to compliment other poems
change.
life if u were a match i wd light u into something beautiful.
change.
change.
for the better into a realreal together thing. change,
from a make believe
nothing on cornmeal and water. change.
change. from the last drop to the first, maxwellhouse did.
change.
change was a programmer for imb, thought him was a brown computer.
change.
colored is something written on southern outhouses. change.
greyhound did, i mean they got rest rooms on buses. change.
change.
change nigger.
saw a nigger hippy, him wanted to be different. changed.
saw a nigger liberal. him wanted to be different changed.
saw a nigger conservative, him wanted to be different. changed.
niggers don't u know that niggers are different. change.
a double change. nigger wanted a double zero in front of
his name; a license to kill,
niggers are licensed to be killed. change. a negro: something
pigs eat.
change. i say change into a realblack righteous aim. like
i don't play saxophone but that doesn't mean i don't dig 'trane.'
change.
change.
hear u coming but yr/steps are too loud. change. even a lamp
post changes nigger.
change, stop being an instant yes machine. change.
niggers don't change they just grow. that's a change; bigger
&better niggers. change, into a necessary blackself.
change, like a gas meter gets higher.
change, like a blues song talking about a righteous tomorrow.
change, like a tax bill getting higher.
change, like a good sister getting better.
change, like knowing wood will burn. change.
know the realenemy.
change,
change nigger: standing on the corner, thought him was cool.
him still standing there. it's winter time,
him cool.
change,
know the realenemy.
change: him wanted to be a tv star.
him is. ten o'clock news.
wanted, wanted. nigger stole some lemon & lime popsicles, thought them were diamonds.
change nigger change.
know the realenemy.
change: is u is or is u aint. change.
now now change. for the better change.
read a change. live a change. read a blackpoem.
change. be the realpeople.
change. blackpoems
will change:
know the realenemy. change. know the realenemy. change yr/enemy
change know the real
change know the real enemy change, change, know the realenemy,
the realenemy, the real
realenemy change your the enemies/ change your change your change
your enemy change
your enemy. know the realenemy, the world's enemy. know them
know them know them the
realenemy change your enemy change your change change change
your enemy change change
change change your change change change.
your
mind nigger.