Black Poetry : Underground Railroad

Tha-Emissary

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May 30, 2005
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In Tha Bottom! Deeeep South
Occupation
Painter
Called the junkyard
My pops been doing business with for years
Intentionally forgot my toolbox
Because I was told the part was off
But the Sojourner Truth was, “No!”
The part was not yet taken
So I had to go do all the bolt breakin
All needed was a simple ratchet and a ten
But what I got was a saying that
Flips pancakes and griddles boys into men
The Junkyard Dog did bark heavily off his lips
As he replied to my request for assistance
“What kind of help you think you gon get?”
My Love she went to work today
She steadily fills prescriptions
Yet a young white woman grieves about a co-pay
Only nine dollars so she checks the computer
To see if insurance will pay
Walking away she hears the scream
“I’m not a freaking liar!”
See my Love is Black
Haters and Racism are clothes worn wet
Not yet in the drier
They’re washed and rinse still till this day
On the phone I ask,
“Baby how was your day?”
The phone is loud Almost bout to click
After every word I say
She asks how was mine?
But she knows the answer
Because she is me
The night is we
Darkness is our hair
Together we lay our cross-tides of pride
Numerous horizontal touches on our dark horizons
We lay vertical kisses down hard like rails
As she softly pushes in the nails
We are black as coal
Trying hard not to get red hot with all this bad air around us
We breathe in each others spirit like steam
Tying hard not to let our embrace evaporate
So I push, she pulls
She pushes, I pull
I push harder, she pulls harder
While they think we’re making love
But we’re pushing each other
Making moves to our getaway
Steaming through the night
Running beside each other in the darkness
To someplace called
“FREEDOM”
 

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