Black Heron

Absurdity is not what you've seen
but what I've heard
and what still gleans
in my minds eye.
Frightened children disturbed
without a mother.
And a son at 219 with no father.
A head on a marines stick can't compare
to the hungry bellies and dirty needles
that fill the veins and minds of those he oppressed.
A lousy crap shoot left cousins on Crenshaw
as former kin climbed the crack costumers
conceived ladders.
As in our own county i co-opted into college.

Jihad is the whore of holy wars.
(the truly internal conflict of
God's truly UN-infernal servants.)
And she is smacked repeatedly,
until the brown face is streaked with red,
darkens to blue,
and is bandaged with white,
The doctor is a bastard,
that heals her but leaves
her crack addict sister a across Sinai
to bleed.

Absurd is fathers fucking daughters,
and 12 year olds with their Gats
at mothers throat.
Digging comic book villains as bad guys,
while Marvel mean them to illustrate
N.Y., L.A., and D.C.
P.D.
The Sly FOX asks "whats freedom?"
Freedom is the pen!
Freedom is the mind!
Freedom is your bottle!
Freedom is your pipe!
Freedom,
is the flight of the black Heron.

Rest in Peace
Gil-Scot Heron
April 1, 1949-May 27, 2011