Marvin X: The Middle East Poems

THURSDAY, JULY 17, 2014

Gaza Concentration CAMP by Marvin X

GAZA Concentration CAMP

There are those who say we must restore peace to GAZA

Peace in the concentration camp

Peace of genocide

Peace no protest allowed

Submit to starvation

humiliation

stunted life 
hell on earth

No protest
peace before anything

Before justice

Before life even

peace

Let the people of GAZA sing silent night

Holy night

All is peaceful

All is right

Under the shadow of death

Let there be peace

No justice

Peace

With boots on our necks

Mass murder but peace

At all costs

Hamas Rockets to no avail
Iron Dome is our gift from USA
Iron Domes is saving our asses

From land, air, sea you attack

Mighty Mouse you are

Iron Dome Mouse

Look at you

Wild wild West beast

No thought of justice

Just peace

Peace be still.

--Marvin X

7/17/14

Palestine

I am not an Arab, I am not a Jew Abraham is not my father, Palestine is not my home But I would fight any man Who kicked me out of my house To dwell in a tent I would fight To the ends of the earth Someone who said to me I want your house Because my father lived here Two thousand years ago I want your land Because my father lived here Two thousand years ago. Jets would not stop me From returning to my home Uncle Toms would not stop me Cluster bombs would not stop me Bullets I would defy. No man can take the house of another And expect to live in peace There is no peace for thieves There is no peace for those who murder For myths and ancient rituals Wail at the wall Settle in "Judea" and Samaria" But fate awaits you You will never sleep with peace You will never walk without listening. I shall cross the River Jordan With Justice in my hand I shall return to Jerusalem And establish my house of peace, Thus said the Lord. --Marvin X (Imam Maalik El Muhajir) Cerca 1970, Black Scholar Magazine Marvin X and Mohja Kahf: Two Poems for the People of Syria Oh, Mohja how much water can run from rivers to sea how much blood can soak the earth the guns of tyrants know no end a people awakened are bigger than bullets there is no sleep in their eyes no more stunted backs and fear of broken limbs even men, women and children are humble with sacrifice the old the young play their roles with smiles they endure torture chambers with laughs they submit to rape and mutilations there is no victory for oppressors whose days are numbered as the clock ticks as the sun rises let the people continue til victory surely they smell it on their hands taste it on lips believe it in their hearts know it in their minds no more backwardness no fear let there be resistance til victory. --Marvin X/El Muhajir Syrian poet/professor Dr. Mohja Kahf Oh Marvin, how much blood can soak the earth? The angels asked, “will you create a species who will shed blood and overrun the earth with evil?”  And it turns out “rivers of blood” is no metaphor:  see the stones of narrow alleys in Duma shiny with blood hissing from humans? Dark and dazzling, it keeps pouring and pumping from the inexhaustible soft flesh of Syrians, and neither regime cluster bombs from the air, nor rebel car bombs on the ground, ask them their names before they die.  They are mowed down like wheat harvested by machine, and every stalk has seven ears, and every ear a hundred grains. They bleed like irrigation canals into the earth. Even one little girl in Idlib with a carotid artery cut becomes a river of blood. Who knew she could be a river  running all the way over the ocean, to you, draining me of my heart? And God said to the angels,  “I know what you know not.” But right now, the angels seem right. Cut the coyness, God; learn the names of all the Syrians. See what your species has done. --Mohja Kahf

let's support the reelection of black arts movement baby, Mayor Ras Baraka, Newark, NJ

Support the reelection of Black Arts Movement baby, Mayor Ras Baraka, Newark NJ  North American Africans should be proud of this young man I have known since he was a child. I watched him organize in the basement of his parent's house. I know the good inside his soul and his undying love for his people. Let the people know we support their desire for Ras Baraka to continue as Mayor!--Marvin X

Police: from Problem to Solution--The Newark, New Jersey Model

by Marvin X







 Newark, NJ Mayor Ras Baraka and Marvin X



When I was in Newark, New Jersey for the last rites of my friend and comrade, poet/activist Amiri Baraka, his son Ras then a city councilman but was running for mayor. He told me then, "Marvin 

we got Black brothers on the police force with legal guns who back us, i.e., the community." And I observed positive police/community relations. It is a different feeling when you know the police are 

on your side. As a matter of fact, during the time of the funeral the police were in and out of the Baraka's house socializing with and protecting Newark's "first family".  Police blocked off the block where the Baraka family lives in the hood.

I was informed some of the officers had grown up with

the Baraka children or their parents had been part of the Newark black consciousness, cultural and political movement that was critical in 

the election of Newark's first Black mayor, Kenneth Gibson. In short, the police were an integral 

part of the community, as opposed to an occupying army.

Now let's be clear, Ras informed me there were police who supported the opposition, but he felt confident with the percentage of officers on his (the peoples) side. Ironically, I was at the Baraka 

house once on AB's  birthday (October 7) when the opposition sent officers with warrants to arrest 

his sons for failure to pay child support. This was done by his political enemies to rattle his cage 

on his birthday. They do play hard ball in Newark and the opposition is serious. There are former Newark mayors who went down in disgrace for their negrocities (AB term, not mine, he wanted 

me to let you know) but have sons they want to be mayor. 












Amiri Baraka and Marvin X, friends 47 years









Of course Ras won the election as mayor, guided by his brother Amiri, Jr.'s (Middy) strategic 

planning. Their mother, Mrs. Amina Baraka, has kept me informed of her son's progress as 

mayor. Even the New York Times gave him brownie points for his first 100 days in office.

Mrs.

Baraka informed me there have been no police killings since Ras became Mayor, although

brothers killing brothers has not stopped. Mayor Baraka has police walking through the hood,

Black and White officers, smiling and greeting the people. Mrs. Baraka said she doesn't know, and many people don't know, what to think of the white officers smiling so much.







lelt to right Dr, Molefe Asante, Mrs. Amina Baraka, Marvin X, Amiri Baraka, Jr., Kenny Gamble









But clearly, community policing is working, thus Newark can be and should be a  model for cities 

trying to upgrade their police departments from acting like brute beasts in blue uniforms. Why 

should police take the life of the mostly poor, mentally ill and drug addicted? Why would you kill 

a man hustling single cigarettes, DVDs and CDs? Why would you kill a man for a broken tail light 

or failure to signal a lane change.? Why should a man suffer a broken spine from a ride in the 

paddy wagon? 












Surely after all the hell the Black Panther Party suffered trying to combat police terror and brutality 

fifty years ago( and we celebrate their 50th anniversary for the sacrifice they made), we must try something new, unless we want to continue bumping our heads against a stone wall.

We don't

have the power to defeat them because they have too much back up, e.g., the army, 

navy, air force, national guard, FBI, Homeland Security, etc. At some point we will need a 

reconciliation or things will go from bad to worse as happened in Dallas, Texas. The nature of the panther is to strike when it is backed up against the wall or corner. 

After seeing with my own eyes

that there can be at least a symbiotic relationship between the people and the police, I've

concluded that we need to get brothers and sisters on the police force, especially in cities where

we are in the majority, and the white officers must be socialized to understand they work for the

people, the people don't work for them.  The people pay their salaries but not to be brutalized and

killed under the color of law. We agree with Chief Brown in Dallas who called for people to be the solution rather than the problem, to become police officers. All they need is community consciousness, similar to the police who arrested me in Belize, Central America, when I was being deported for entering the country illegally. While I was at the police station awaiting deportation, they 

surrounded me and when they had me in the center of a circle, they begged me to teach them 

about Black Power, the real reason I was being deported. Wouldn't it be nice if the American police would ask the Black Lives Matter people to teach them about Black Power rather than try to 

ridicule the BLM out of existence because just as the police ain't going nowhere, Black 

Lives Matter isn't either. Stay Woke!

crazy house poem marvin x

waffles

die Sunday morn

pig n blanket death

lighter than feather

Mao said

North Carolina Negroes

pray with devil

Deaf dumb blind Negroes

can't smell funky devil in midst

Didn't Jesus escape through midst of enemies

smelled them

As-Salaam-Alaikum

Shalom Alaikum

passed through midst of them

til Martha Mary came

bout Lazarus

Jesus said cool 

go home Mary Martha

don't moan

got Laz covered 

raised Laz dead Negro state

last act before crucifixion

playa haters said that's it that's all

healin' sick makin' blind see ok

upliftin' ho's kissin' feet ok

woman at well ok

go sin no more woman

cast first stone ok

But you fucked up JC

you raised Lazarus 

we can't have you round here raising dead

Masonic Negroes

preachers teachers politicians judges lawyers say keep Jack in box

don't want jack out

keep Jack dead deaf dumb blind

if he join brotherhood

pay degrees

Laz all right

he pay by degrees

he rise from shallow grave

Hiram Biff myth-ritual

otherwise 

let dead stay dead

Negro leaders

Culture keepers

Democratic Party Negroes

let dead stay dead

No independent thought allowed

Dead Negro Anglo-Saxon thought ok

Kayne no

Sista girl no

put Kayne back in mental hospital

crazy nigga dumb ignut

At least Beyonce talk black culture

no more lap dancer

black panther

lift every voice sing sista

hot sauce purse sista

big H girl

billion dollar black sista

Let Kanye be Kanye

Why we all gotta be all

politics is politics 

no permanent friends enemies

only interests ideology agenda

Huey Newton say Marvin X

What's yo program?

Kanye what's yo program

Beyonce what's your program

Problem program

Solution program what

better ax somebody

cross lynching tree 

Billie Holiday 

Strange Fruit 

let dead stay dead

cell phone dead

low information vibration dead

Won't call Miss Ann

Becky with good hair

Miss Ann/Becky say

Did you mean

Did you mean

Southern trees Strange Fruit

travel Southern roads without armor of God

South armed camp

men armed women

my North Carolina woman kept piece on night stand

South hunting season holiday

Negro coon hunt

Better know piece for peace South

What Akinyele Umoja say

We Shoot Back

Robert Williams say Negroes With Guns

Southern Negroes never go Southern roads without piece fa peace

Northern Negroes too

We read Negro With Guns

north south same same

North up south

Canada say South anything below border South

No matter

Deaf dumb blind church Negroes cry

oh devil we forgive thee

Jesus cried on cross lynching tree

Father, why did you forsake me?

dead god cannot help dead Negro

Jesus couldn't help himself

bleeding nailed on cross

hippy lookin' Serapis

Oh Serapis Christos

codified Jesus 332AD

Nicea Conference

father son holy ghost

trinity not for African Christianity

rejected

Separpis no Jesus

not the one

people shouted

away with him

give us the thieves!

This was black savior

nappy hair

bronze skin

no blue eyed devil hippy Serapis

even Black Jesus

couldn't save himself

Isis had to find his vital organ dick

put him together from Lebanon tree

Horus the Avenger came

justice baby

Horus Harun

virgin birth child

I come for you Seth

Agent of Darkness Devil Seth

Sun Set

I come for you Devil

You are not truth

do not weight scales with feather of truth

Mizan Ma'at

Seth you lie on the scales of justice

how can we believe in god couldn't save himself

he can save us if we believe

say sinner's prayer

saved now

covered by the blood

saved from racism

born again

hate niggas ok now

kill niggas ok now

saved

niggas so traumatized

want no church no religion no god

communism ok

no jesus please

anything but jesus muhammad too

vudun

Yoruba Moorish Science 5%

spare me

religiosity spare me

Give me  golden calf

girls boys just wanna have fun

material girl material boy

material world

do not save us from Sodom Gomorrah

we smarter than god

we want the men angels

to hell with your daughters Lot

give us the men

and the many gods

fuck one god monotheism

imperialism in religion

let the polytheists rejoice

let us adore gods of our fathers mothers ancestors all

do not save us from polytheism

let us dance all night to ancestor gods

religiosity mythology ideology dogmatism sectarianism racism globalism atheism communism

capitalism multiculturalism

julia hare said is but another word for failed integration

True dat Julia

america segregated now more than ever

bank account segregated

edumakation

religion

11Am still most segregated hour in America

1PM Friday most segregated hour in Muslim world USA too

Sista Maryom Al Wadai say we need Nigga Islam no Super Sunni Saudi Arabian Iranian myth-ritual Islam

niggas on bottom Islam

bottom rail top Islam Christianity Communism Socialism

Democratic Party Republican Party bottom rail top

2008 Crash 19 Trillion gone

basic wealth black/ white america gone

middle class gone

home owners now renters

tent dwellers

sub prime low scam tricknology

negro removal ethnic cleansing gentrification

black homes white 

harlem white

oakland berkeley san francisco white

black lives matter sign in window

love the devil cause he give us nothing

work whole life nothing

retired gov. cheese nothing

don't have $10,000 in bank

ten dollars nothing

payday loan no payday

payday loan college students

trillion dollar dept student loans

never pay

slave for life

Gotta go to ma slave man

see you later man

can't hang

slave job fa life

contract worker

no benefit wage slave worker

Uber  youber juber

can children go to school 

no body bag children

what world is this

what kinna people are these

humans

robotic 

walk across street cell phone robot

don't see car on ass

don't care

where you at where you at

nowhere

AB said Tales of Out and Gone

I say Tales of Deaf Dumb Blind

Where is your mind and why

you cannot medicate the pain of reality

pain of your father's sins

privileges you inherited but deny

this is why opioids  confound the land of the free home of the brave

how can one walk upon killing fields yet cannot feel blood beneath their feet

don't care they walk on ancestor bones yet ancestor voices wail in the wind

the deaf dumb blind don't hear don't care

let opioids consume their madness

they wonder as they wonder

families bleed with pain

loved ones gone so young

why must parents bury children

this is not natural

but what is natural these days

in this land of the loveless

minds consumed with data data data

money data

fame data

brand data app data

tweeters twaters

Instagram moneygram

Facebook friends

3000 friends won't send a dime

damn

Bob Marley say wit ma friends don't need enemies

but every little ting gonna b all ite

every little ting gonna b all ite.

Crazy house called America.

When will you serve the least of these

liberate all captives in gulags dungeons

some in mansion dungeons

scared to leave the house

scared to get fresh air

scared to drive

might kill in road rage

wife knows her man crazy

she crazy too

think everybody want her man

do she want her man

do she want herself

blessed in mansion

cursed by self

self accusing spirit

Woe to America

blessed yet cursed

won't share the wealth

greedy pig

1% want it all

no heart no mind no soul

deaf dumb blind.

--Marvin X/El Muhajir (Arabic, the Migrant)

4/24/18

Marvin X Plastic Poem for Earth Day and Beyond

Marvin X

I don't want the Christian truth, Muslim truth, Communist truth, Capitalist truth, Hindu truth, Rasta truth, Kemet truth, Yoruba truth, I want the whole truth, so help me Creator!"

--Marvin X, revised from original quote in Jet Magazine, Negro Bible

Plastic man

Ugly plastic shoes

No daddy ugly shoes

No Stacy Adams

Plastic ugly shit

No daddy shit

Pants off behind prison gay shit

Anything advertised for sale no?

Punk is punk

Prison punk hood punk same

Weak is weak

Warrior warrior same

Solid don’t break solid

Weak nigga weak in hood

Big yard took

Solid don’t bend

China make

50 cent shoe

nigga pay $300.00

Trick nigga trick

Life trick

How you start how you end

Game don’t change

Better ax somebody

Bitch nigga

He in da mix

kill fa shoes

No hustle ass nigga

Wait fa bitch money ass nigga

Pimpin sympin

mama’s house bicycle pimp

Pimp first cousin sista pimp

Get real shamin’ game nigga pimp

Nigga ho’ love pimp

Baby mama pimp

What ho’ stay nigga

Ho’ come ho’ go nigga

Ax Fillmore where his ho’s

Where day go

Prison

Mental hospital

Cemetery

Church ho’

Preacher pimp

Ho’ church ho

Dress so tight

Can’t listen preacher sermon

Eyes stuck ho’s ass

Thank you Jesus

Thank you Jesus

Hallelujah

Ho’ heaven ho’ go

Fillmore say don’t beat ho’

Ho’ come back

Marry go round ho

Fillmore say.

Poor ghetto nigga kill fa nigga shoes

Fuck dat bitch ass nigga

Yeah I smoked ‘m took shoes

Took money too

Ma baby mama gotta eat

Baby too

Pampers fool

Plastic car

clothes

water

food

fish

neon lights fish

japan radiation fish

plastic whale fish

sardine can plastic fish

plastic islands bigger 'n two Texas

Plastic island bigger’n two texas

No matter

International waters plastic island

plastic dicks pussies

plastic ho's

tricks

plastic love

plastic cell phone sex

no touch feel sex

text sex climax

baby I lick ya stick ya

cum girl cum

cum phone cum

ho suckin fuckin

pimp listening

make dat white man cum ho'

get ma money bitch

don't spend all night wit dat nigga can't cum

fuck him

get white trick cum quick

git ma money bitch

all niggas sick

Nigga lie say I’m woke

Nigga comatose

Sleep in eyes walkin’ dead

Plastic cell phone dead

Crack hand dead yesterday

Cell phone hand dead today

Dead is dead

Freddie’s Dead

You heard?

Freddie’s Dead

Freddy sick

ho' sick

pimp sick

trick sick

wife home sick

children sick

plastic tv sick

preacher sick

teacher sick

what song say

preachers gotta preach new way

teachers gotta teach new way

wake up everybody

square bitch sick

square nigga sick

can't rap pussy date sick

Ho’ know nigga hit pipe go limp dick

Plastic dildo purse sick

Limp dick nigger

No rap nigga

All niggas ain’t Kanye P Diddy Jay Z

all niggas can't rap

crack got no rappin' niggas pussy first time history

no rap nigga got pussy crack rock pussy no matter pussy pussy

nerd got pussy old man grandfather get pussy

no age grade square shit

grandfather got rock

grandfather get young pussy

crack rock mama son pussy/dick

Sleep in same bed love

Let me serve you son

Fuck dem crack ho’s son

Let me suck yo dick son

crack rock father/daughter pussy/dick

father daughter baby cum love

Muslim/Christian father daughter love

daddy tongue kiss daughters crack love

auntie turn out niece pussy pussy love

niece want dick auntie want pussy pussy love

fuck dat nigga bitch

you ma bitch bitch

plastic dick love

wild wild west love

drop rock get cock love

hiv love

std love

suck dog dick love

bitch Rottweiler love

better get me a Rottweiler up in here

fuck a nigga dick

no rap no rhyme

crack rock talk square nigga talk

restaurant dinner bitch no eat

text message at $100.00 dinner

no talk

date wonder what up

I'm hip hop dude

get wit it

My generation gotta phone fuck

can't eat shit fuck phone

love ma plastic dick phone

no smile grin

$100.00 dinner phone fuck dude

plastic mind

hip hop plastic

plastic rhymes

sleepy time tea raps

where you at where you at

African precious minerals for where you at

low information vibration

no google conscious knowledge

where you at

pussy and dick songs

kill pussy and dick love

plastic

shower curtain plastic

sofa loveseat plastic

plastic conversation

Pseudo conscious Kemet

5%

Moorish Science

Islam Supper Sunni

pay my phone bill daddy

Want some pussy

Pay phone bill

$700.00 phone

where you at

plastic phone

Plastic mind

What Amiri Baraka say,

“Where the soul’s print should be there is

Only a cellulose pouch of disgusting habits!”

plastic love

after nut then what

no look no talk

darkness love

don't wanna see you

look in eyes

silence

climax wait

gotta call wait

hold nut please

answer phone

baby daddy call

I love you Dante

oh, baby baby

wait baby daddy

Dante make me cum

juices flow

Niagara Falls cum

Dante Dante Dante

Baby Daddy gotta go gotta go

text me BD

Next night

Dante no show

Plastic sex night

oil based love

petrochemical love

pharmaceutical

heal me doc

red pill

pain kill

no love kill pill

pain alone pill

anxiety stress

woman woman love pill

who is true

real

illusion pill

plastic love

just want appreciation pill

let me overdose true love pill

kiss me here there everywhere true love kiss

no one night stand please

Kiss you here there everywhere

No one night stand please

True love night

No alcohol drug night

Natural freak night please

Natural freak nigga please

Show me give me

Nathan Julia 60 year love pill

George Barbara Bush 70 year love pill

no seven minutes

after nut then what

no talk

no politics

don’t like you nigga

Jaguare Mercedes Benz nigga

Fake phony weak material boy

Material world nigga

gotta good job baby nigga

boss love me

only nigga on top team

hire white asian

tell me train them

take red pill

I am Job faithful to God

African  slave ship job ass nigga

Door of no return nigga

No jump ship nigga

Triangular trade nigga

Slaves sugar cane rum trinket ass nigga

Toussaint broke spell ass nigga

Vudun democratic society nigga

Let me dance my drum my god nigga

You dance

We dance

Drum call gods

All nigga gods

Cept jesus god

Fuck jesus god

Servants be obedient to masters god

Nat Turner god good

Dessellines kill mulattoes god good

Dessellines, I told you to prune tree

Not uproot it! Toussaint said

Denmark Vesey god

Gabriel Prosser

Black Thunder god

You my woman

Help me

Free our people woman

Gabriel say

Woman say I’m down Gabriel

Got yo back

Got yo front too Gabriel

Black Thunder

freedom or death

Black thunder

Harriet Tubman

I could’ve freed more slaves

If they had known they were slaves

God of liberation god

Liberty or death god

Cotton field nigga god

Sugar cane nigga god

Rice field nigga god

eternal job nigga god no god

Eternal job nigga god bitch ass nigga god

30 year fake gold watch nigga god

Let boss fuck my wife at xmas party nigga god

Jesus ass bitch nigga god

Dead god nigga jesus god dead

Bleeding cross lynching tree

Strange fruit jesus nigga god dead

Resurrection Nile Valley god

Hapi river god

Osiris Isis Horus

no cotton now

sugar cane

chains

blue trane job

chain gang job for life

doing life

get pennies now

cage bird pennies

for life

13th Amendment Slave

Constitutional

death row slave

No sun moon stars

no human touch love

no wife no woman no cry

Bob Marley say

solitude plastic cell love

plastic fork love

Gang kill love

pay guard cell phone sex love

guard got yacht son need yacht love

call call call

pay me I call

baby come pay me guard say

pay God

all things possible

pay me

Guards run governor love

we say gov. do

what part you don't understand

My man

Revolutionary pay too

plastic move world

work it dog

work it

plastic water

fish

chicken

cows

petrochemical plastic food

you love it eat it like hog to slop

fat

greasy soul food

kill mama food

cut mama legs soul food

eat mama gone

soul food love

Sick love

greasy slave food family love

no talk family dinner

tv loud football white man talk

Niggas run pig ball brain dead broke ass niggas

family

no love talk

family trauma no healing talk

Family predator no talk

Family know he rapist nieces nephews

Family sing Silent Night

plastic tv white man nigga slave athletes

control family love

no politics

family crazy nigga wanna tell truth

muzzled like dog

let's talk money bitches plastic car talk

plastic cell phone talk

Plastic rich nigga tv talk

muzzle crazy nigga black truth talk

Talk Jordan's Sean John

50 cent slave plastic shoes $500.00 talk

But we woke woke woke

plastic shoes mind dead woman blond hair woke

pants off behind man woman child woke

Know latest raps woke

know nothing woke

fake phony pseudo woke

bleaching cream woke

korean hair woke

korean eyes woke

korean nails woke

appreciate you

appreciate you

hotep!

Alafia

Salaam Alaikum

Salaam Alaikum.

--Marvin X

4/22/18