Marvin X new poems: Ignut Nigga and other poems

 Harlem New York reception for Marvin X at the home of poet Rashidah Ishmaili, 2014. Marvin X was in NYC to speak at the New York University memorial for poets Jayne Cortez and Amiri Baraka.

Maestro Marvin X with the Black Arts Movement Poets Choir and Arkestra, including David Murray, Earle Davis, Val Serrat, et al., Malcolm X Jazz/Art Festival, Oakland CA
photo Adam Turner/Gene Hazzard


Talkin' Ignut poem

Would you prefer a black Communist or black Capitalist regime

Black Muslim

Super Sunni

Iranian Shia

Saudi Arabian Israeli ISIS

Yoruba

Hebrew

Voodoo

Hoodoo 

Doodoo

Gay lesbian trans

Jesus saves Saviours

Social Democratic Republican gangsta

Scientology Farrakhan

Back to Egypt back to the moon

Back to back

Wakanda multicultural

Me too him too

Ho's tricks too

Priests boys too

Women dogs too

What a wonderful world

Can't we all just

Have some Pizza

--MARVIN X

11/5/18

Can I hear some black music 

Can I hear some Black music

Not fusion Miller Lite

Mexican soul music

Mi corazon

Black music

Not white hippie hip hop

Black jazz 

Coltrane Billie Bessie

Blues

Cotton field blues

Cane field

Rice blues 

Chicago pain

Urban blues

Fillmore Street 7th Street Oakland Blues

Hammond B 3 Blues supreme

Jimmy Smith

Earl Father Hines jazz blues

Josephine Baker Slim Jenkin's blues

John Singer Pullman Porter Union Hall Blues

No water down blues

Give me national anthem 

Lift every voice and sing blues.

--MARVIN X

11/5/28

Love Letter to Ann Williams

Ann

can you believe a nigger can love you for fifty years

in silence

from 1962 til now

your black beauty was supreme then and now

your intelligence

quiet character in the midst of madmen supreme

your partner turned out to be the maddest of all

Beyond Donald/Khalid

beyond Huey, Bobby

Ken Freeman, Isaac Moore, Ernie Allen, Maurice Dawson Judy Juanity

Ann
I won't call his name because he honored me
first to recognize me as writer
introduced me to Huey Newton

you were cool through it all

black velvet beauty

sustained years of terror death betrayal 
jealousy envy

Was it your West Oakland spirit

like mine

codified in Harlem of the West

Defermery Park

McClymonds

New Century
Lincoln Theatre
John Singer's Pool Hall/Bar
upstairs

C.L. Dellums  and the Pullman Porters Union

Nephew Ron Dellums
sometimes we can't come close to elders
we try we try
I thought I was better than my father
what a fool
people told me I sounded like my father
Thought I was a Garveyite Black nationalist
on my own
Paul Cobb told me my dad used to attend Garvey meetings
at his grandfather's house in West Oakland

Ann 

cool quiet woman

called upon to listen

Donald Warden ranted on and on in your ear on telephone

He loved your quiet black beauty

unsurpassed unequal

even today

last days of Babylon

you are here

standing tall
royal african beauty and intelligence

queen of the bay
quiet storm

I love you 
just know that

warrior woman

West Oakland Queen

Ann Williams

Better  ax somebody!

--Marvin X
11/5/18