Belated hapi b-day poem for Amina Baraka

Oh, when black was beautiful: Mrs. and Mr. Amina and Amiri Baraka

Amina Baraka
My revolutionary comrade

AB my comrade too

We brothers and sisters really

Beyond friends

United in revolutionary blood and joy

So many good times together

Coast to coast

Black house SF

Spirit house NewArk

Baraka house 10th Street

Dr. Molefe Asante, Mrs. Amina Baraka, Marvin X, Amiri Baraka, Jr., Kenny Gamble, the Philly Sound

My east coast home

So many years tears fears

See Baraka children grow

Ras become da mayor

Middy Jr Chief of staff

Ras Baraka, Da Mayor of Newark, New Jersey

Shani gone to lesbian heaven
Shani say Marvin X only man I like

Shani Baraka and her lover Rayshon, both fatal victims of domestic violence

AB smiling from Communist heaven

Dancing with Maya Toni

Sun Ra Coltrane

WEB

Robeson

Malcolm

808 10th Street quiet now

AB gone

Amina writes poetry alone

Free of AB's shadow

Wait till you hear her poems

Fire poems of love

There was Mandela

And there was Winnie

Don't mess with Amina

Like Winnie

Revolutionary terror

No first lady of Newark

Ras her son not husband

Rarely go to City Hall

Let them boys do they thing

Amina Baraka gotta sing

Red songs of revolution

Just don't mess with her children

Won't be no problem.
--MARVIN X
12/17/19