Patrick's Perturbed Poem

TODAY THIS SON OF A SLAVE IS ANGRY

Today is not a nice day

Today is not a day for learned responses

And the upkeep of society’s pretenses

Today is not a day to smile and say

Good morning how are

Good afternoon how do you do

Today is a day to look some of you in the face

And say fuck you!

Because today this son of a slave is angry

Angry with the white man

Who kept me in chains and ragged attire

Angry with the greedy brown ones

Who’ve been trying to do the same

Since the white man retired.

But most of all this son of a slave

Is angry with those of his own kind

Who neglect their duty

And turn their backs on history.

Who instead of using their energy

For the betterment of each other

Boast about working for the Holy Father.

Put on their best clothes and their best smiles

Pick up their best bibles

And walk into the house of mental oppression

To sing hallelulah and take Holy Communion

Giving praise and thanks to the bastard son

The first baby conceived through artificial insemination

Leaving their own sons and daughters

To roam the streets and wallow in ignorance.

Today is not a nice day

Today this son of a slave is angry

Angry with the white sons-of-bitches

Who dragged me across the Atlantic

Angry with the brown sons-of-bitches

Who take their greed and prejudices

To the ballot boxes and mark their x-es

Next to the philistines destroying this nation.

But most of all angry with the black sons-of-bitches

Who neglect their education

And go through life without a plan

Living in the moment blissfully content

With snatching other people’s chains and watches

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Shooting and stabbing their fellow man

For a few dollars to spend on clothes and drugs

Killing helpless young women for cell phones

May the ghost of Sheema haunt their souls

And diseases invade their bones.

Today is not a nice day

Because today this son of a slave is angry

Maybe tomorrow while under the stupor

Of a hangover from today’s anger

I will cover my bile with a smile

And say good morning how are you

But for today I just want to look

At some of your shameless faces and say

Fuck you!
                                                       Patrick George