Thursday, January 17, 2019

Marvin X poem: I saw Toby today

Marvin X at Frank Ogawa/Oscar Grant Plaza, 14th and Broadway, downtown Oakland.

photo Pendarvis Harshaw

Marvin X established his Academy of da Corner at 14th and Broadway, also on Lakeshore Ave. and the Berkeley Flea Market.
photo Adam Turner

After 400 years
I saw Toby today
down from Kunta Kinti
royal robes of Maa't
today funky
stinkin'
Toby
came in Peet's Coffee
Lakeshore Oakland
sat down at black woman table
she don't know what to say
Terrified Toby at her table
sippin' her Latte
tried to sit cool
Toby fool sick
Kinti mind dead
way backin' time
1619
was it Kinti's crime
Toby Villain victim
African army of Tobys
disabled veterans of US war on Toby
call Toby drugs crime in the street
deranged disoriented
I love the Whispers line
Lost and Turned out
on way to Grandmother's house
Toby
Elijah say lost-found socalled Negro
I call him North American Africa
Elijah say he Aboriginal Asiatic Black Man
Maker Owner Planet Earth
Really
This Toby in Peet's Coffee
If he own it will he claim it
too sick to claim own mind
Young dread lock brother ask Toby to leave
dread brother know Toby
know Toby sick
he kind to Toby
Young dread brother know Elijah lesson The Proper Handling of People
Tony pull up pants
Black woman sign relief
And this is my king
this Toby thang
no thanks
Where is Kunta
rise Kunta
Rise and take me home
yes
through door of no return
Malcolm X said we left our minds in Africa
rise Kunta
don royal robes
let us depart as we came in the water
submerged
we sail path Baraka told
"In the Atlantic Ocean
railroad of human bones....
King sold farmer to ghost
King sold farmer to ghost...."

Take me Kunta
no more Toby please
kill Toby hang him please
Toby no good nobody
Recycle Toby
let Kunta speak
speak Kunta
spit your royal rap
spit Hebrew Christian Muslim Yoruba Ma'at Sufi Sunni Democratic Socialist Communist Troskyist
Vudun Santeria Candomble' Holy Ghost Five Per Cent Noble Drew Ali Democrat Negro Republican Negro spit
gender sex gods
ocean gods rivers
mountain gods money gods
kill mama daddy money gods
speak
King Kunta speak
no silencia por favor
digame digame digame
stand Toby as Kunta
once again
at the crossroads of Legba Eshu Ptah Peter
Can Toby wash in river ocean stream
wash baptism of return
wash
drum ancestor rhythms
bata
djembe
conga
listen Toby listen good
let drum heal heart.
listen Toby listen good
God hears those who praise Him
Our Lord to Thee is due all praise.
Sami Allahu liman al hamida
Rabbana na laki al hamd.
---marvin x
1/17/19

Marvin X Speaks and Reads
coast to coast.
Now booking.
jmarvinx@yahoo.com

Marvin X Tour 2019

February 16, Sat
Alameda CA
Reading/ book signing
Back 2 Nature Wellness Salon
and Barber Shop
475 Central Avenue
3-6pm

February 22, Friday
Reading book signing
Hunters Point, San Francisco
5:30-7:30
901 Fairfax Avenue

February 23, Saturday
Oakland
Reading/book signing
BAMFEST

Marvin X reading at Charles Wright Museum, Detroit MI, December 15, 2018. He has been invited back at another venue for Black History Month
photo Leona McElevene

February 28, Thursday
Detroit, MI
TBA

March 2, Saturday
Reading/book signing
Philadelphia PA
Brothers Network
TBA

May
Reading/book signing
Seattle WA
Host Hakeem Trotter
TBA

August
National Black Theatre Festival
Winston-Saleem, North Carolina
TBA

October
Austin, Texas
How We Got Ova 1619-2019
A poetic myth/ritual dance drama
by El Muhajir, aka Marvin X

Train in da Water

poem by Marvin X

"In the Atlantic ocean is a railroad of human bones...."--Amiri Baraka

Train came to ocean

we riding in da water

Riding waves bout to go under

How sweet da waves

train went under

Passing da many fish

As we submerged

How pleasant da train

Going down slowly

another space for peace

Let da ocean wash us with love

We connect the bones of Baraka's railroad

train rides down into darkness

where no light is needed.

we black ocean same.

--1/13/19

The X Men: Marvin X, son Marvin K, grandsons Jordan and Jahmeel

Dear Black Folks,

Stay out of white folks bizness. They stay out of our bizness in the hood, even though they supply the guns, dope, sick religion, . mis-education, toxic food, water, air; death music rap beats, perverted psycho-sexuality of do yo thang, be what ya wanna be; totally insane political policies that violate their own laws at the drop of a hat, e.g., sanctuary cities and states. Imagine what white folks would do if we declared the hood a sanctuary space that excluded Europe American entrance and jurisdiction and banned them from arresting North American African criminals for any reason without our consent. We establish and adjudicate all violations in our space. Imagine this!

Stay out of white folks bizness. They suffer a malady far worse than white Supremacy. Our ancestors and elders called their condition white lunacy.

Let them fight among themselves. Let them have their second Civil War. That's their bizness not ours. Our business is to establish a sovereign, independent nation. The master and slave do not have the same agenda.

--Marvin X

1/14/19

Poet/Essayist/Educator/Activist Marvin X after his lecture/discussion in Davey D's Hip Hop class at
San Francisco State University, Marvin X's alma mater. He was a founding member of the Black Students Union.
photo Davey D

Notes of Artistic Freedom Fighter Marvin X

Now Available

Order your copy from

Black Bird Press

requested donation

$29.95

call 510-575-7148

credit cards accepted

Marvin X

Poet, playwright, essayist, educator, activist

speaking/reading

University of Chicago, 2015

photo Burrell Sunrise

Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Parable of the Patriarch and Misanthrope

Parable of the Patriarch and Misanthrope

No misogynist

homophobic

sexist pig

no racist

hater white nationalist

hater

Democratic Socialist

Communist

Marxist

Troskyist

Maoist

been there did that

just don't like humans

fake phony fraud motherfuckas

all up in yo face

fake love rapper say

I say

low information vibration

humankind

world of make believe

material girls and boys

ignut of spiritual world

parents/ children on animal plane

no seekers of truth

lovers of lies

lie to me lie to me

my lover said

you lie so good

lie nigga lie

but I told truth

my over said goodbye

low information vibration

Qur'an say

animal plane

human plane

divine plane

are you animal human divine?

you fine fine fine

but what's on yo mind?

Girl T shirt said

Cute but Psycho!

you fine

big behind

what's on yo mind?

treat ya like a ho'

ya love me so

treat ya like a queen

ya hate me mean

children same

abandon neglect

you love me

give you everything

ya hate me

ungrateful bastards

we call them

how you smarter'n yo daddy

did you suffer exile jail prison

black listed white listed

house arrest

hated by friends and foe

traveled wit baddest niggas to and fro'

what do you know

goin' to and fro'

square nigga in round world

what did you do

went to school where yo daddy put his life ona line to teach

made things better fada whole town

but you got a frown

ain't never went down

funky town

you daddy's twin

you say where similarities end

you fool

school can't help a fool

material things can't help a fool

monkey in tuxedo still monkey

I say call me

you say fa what?

cause I'm yo daddy motherfucka

call yo daddy motherfucka

think you got forever

they say child abuse when parent don't call child

What about elderly abuse when you won't call mama daddy

I love what Tupac told his Mama

"You might be a Crack fiend Mama

But you still a Black Queen Mama!"

Call me fa what? Cause I love you.

Is this enough

you got my DNA

in deep structure of mental spiritual

I don't hate you

love you beyond love

if you knew

fool

school can't help a fool

don't know a good deck

four Ace of Spades

But I love you still

stop fakin' ya doin' God's will

you and your Father are one

fool

How can you hate Father

Are you not Father's number one son

Shall your children hate you

for all good you have done

under the sun

what goes around comes around

did they teach you dat in school

fool?

For my abuse of women

I lost eye

I understand why

what goes round comes round

low information vibration

My barber say mis-information

bless his heart

moved his shop from mis-information colleagues

barber said he needed to be round more mature personalities

don't wanna kill a nigga owe him fifty dollars

just know there are fifty dollar fools in da world

Again, why I hate human beings?

They pitiful

Chris Rock say to women

"Everything bout you is a lie!"

I say of men and women

Everything bout you is a lie!

truth ain't in ya.

Feed a nigga

dope a nigga

Hennessy a nigga

pay a nigga

nigga hate ya guts

nigga jealous envious

Sun Ra say

What kind of people are these

ain't people I used to know

Birmingham Alabama people

They say brother

What kinna brother

Sunny say to me

What kinna brother

brother man

brother beast

brother girl

I say long ago

what kinna people are these

really make ya wonder

Hurry Allah

wit da fire water!

you sacrifice fada people

will da people sacrifice

fada people?

Black Panthers say

Power to the people

US Constitution say

power to consent of the governed

do you consent to the present order of terror

economic terror

military religious terror

slave wage terror

90% don't have $1,000.00 in bank

99% survive from check to check

Elijah said it best

trick trick out trick!

Reverse Tricknology

bring nigga back from dead

deaf dumb blind

Granddaughter Naima say

Can deaf dumb blind

see

hear

speak

I say Stevie Wonder can see

Ray Charles could see

better'n you and me

Ray told bout Danger Zone

Ray say

Look round

you will see

what's troublin' me

Danger Zone everywhere

Read yo papers

you will see

Danger Zone Everywhere.

I ain't no hater

I'm a lover

like no other

just don't come at me wit willie foo foo bullshit

been wit coldest niggas in da world

I know shit from Shinola

Know Ginger Ale

from Coca-Cola

I love my chidren

a thousand times than they shall ever know

love their mothers

my siblings too

I only have a minute more wit you

So I shall be true true true

Love the family God bequest to you

love them for their negrocities (Amiri Baraka term--he told me don't steal his term!)

love them beyond similarities of the physical

love them for the DNA the metaphysical.

--Marvin X

1/15/19

Monday, January 14, 2019

BAMBFEST FEB.2019 presents Marvin X, BAMBD/BAM co-founder Marvin X

Train in da Water

poem by Marvin X

"In the Atlantic ocean is a railroad of human bones...."--Amiri Baraka

Train came to ocean

we riding in da water

Riding waves bout to go under

How sweet da waves

train went under

Passing da many fish

As we submerged

How pleasant da train

Going down slowly

another space for peace

Let da ocean wash us with love

We connect the bones of Baraka's railroad

train rides down into darkness

where no light is needed.

we black ocean same.

--1/13/19

The X Men: Marvin X, son Marvin K, grandsons Jordan and Jahmeel

Dear Black Folks,

Stay out of white folks bizness. They suffer a malady far worse than white Supremacy. Our ancestors and elders called their condition white lunacy.

--Marvin X

1/14/19

Notes of Artistic Freedom Fighter Marvin X

Now Available

Order your copy from

Black Bird Press

requested donation

$29.95

call 510-575-7148

credit cards accepted

Marvin X

Poet, playwright, essayist, educator, activist

speaking/reading

University of Chicago, 2015

photo Burrell Sunrise

Saturday, January 5, 2019

The Wall Hypocrites

The Wall hypocrites

Mending Wall

BY ROBERT FROST

Something there is that doesn't love a wall,

That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,

And spills the upper boulders in the sun;

And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.

The work of hunters is another thing:

I have come after them and made repair

Where they have left not one stone on a stone,

But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,

To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,

No one has seen them made or heard them made,

But at spring mending-time we find them there.

I let my neighbour know beyond the hill;

And on a day we meet to walk the line

And set the wall between us once again.

We keep the wall between us as we go.

To each the boulders that have fallen to each.

And some are loaves and some so nearly balls

We have to use a spell to make them balance:

"Stay where you are until our backs are turned!"

We wear our fingers rough with handling them.

Oh, just another kind of out-door game,

One on a side. It comes to little more:

There where it is we do not need the wall:

He is all pine and I am apple orchard.

My apple trees will never get across

And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.

He only says, "Good fences make good neighbours."

Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder

If I could put a notion in his head:

"Why do they make good neighbours? Isn't it

Where there are cows? But here there are no cows.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know

What I was walling in or walling out,

And to whom I was like to give offence.

Something there is that doesn't love a wall,

That wants it down." I could say "Elves" to him,

But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather

He said it for himself. I see him there

Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top

In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.

He moves in darkness as it seems to me,

Not of woods only and the shade of trees.

He will not go behind his father's saying,

And he likes having thought of it so well

He says again, "Good fences make good neighbours."

Do those who protest the white nationalist Wall on the US border, also protest the Zionist wall in occupied Palestine? Do the Democratic Socialist pseudo progressives and their left wing sycophants protest the weekly slaughter of those who approach the border fence separating the Zionists from the Gaza concentration camp?

For the most part, all we hear is the song of Silent Night on the Zionist wall, but wailing and crocodile tears about the wall on the US/Mexican border. I don't understand why there isn't total agreement between America's left and right wing Zionist Zealots that the Zionist wall should be the model for the US/Mexican border wall. Furthermore, did not America's greatest poet Robert Frost tell us fences make good neighbors?

As a matter of national security, how can America justify spending nearly a trillion dollars on its defense budget but squabble over five billion requested by the Trump administration for the security of the USA.

The truth, supreme irony and contradiction is that the globalist democratic socialists and many Republicans in league with the Globalists, believe in open borders while many of them live behind walled compounds! Even upper and middle class Mexicans and other Latinos throughout the Indigenous Americas live behind walled compounds and villas, including some of my Communists friends in the Americas.

Growing up in the agricultural valley of California, my family never locked our doors. There were too many siblings in my Mother's house to issue keys to all. And Granny would never turn away a hungry stranger from her door when we lived with her in the projects. Of course this is in harmony with the African tradition delineated by Cheikh Anta Diop in his classic Cultural Unity of Africa as per his theory of the Northern and Southern Cradle. The Northern Cradle custom would kill the stranger, the Southern Cradle welcomed the stranger. I remember hungry white men stopping by Granny's house in the projects and she did not hesitate to feed them whatever food she had available.

Of course in his Destruction of African Civilization, Chancellor Williams taught this attitude and tradition lead to our downfall and the Black Panther Wakanda Kingdom's xenophobia eclipsed the Diopian Southern Cradle model. I have observed the Wakandan zenophobia from San Francisco's Hunters Point to South Carolina's Gullahland, i.e., "If you ain't from here don't come here!" Of course gentrification is smashing this xenophobic notion. Whites are invading Hunters Point and Gullahland, especially since the Hip Hop generation of Gullah Africans care nothing about their paradise islands. They rather die in the streets of Savannah and Atlanta!

Perhaps the Democratic Socialists should continue their call for open borders and sanctuary cities and states. Perhaps the USA should forget about fencing and walling the border and allow the USA to continue being the haven for every hateful unclean bird. If so, why continue funding the trillion dollar annual military budget for the national security of the USA? For sure, the budget did not prevent 9/11. So America should continue being the haven for every filthy unclean bird. After all, they can join the USA's filthy unclean birds. We heard filthy unclean birds flock together!

While President Trump called a plethora of nations shit-holes, has not America's most beautiful city, my beloved San Francisco, become a shit-hole? But the supreme irony is that while San Francisco is the epic center of the high tech revolution, its white supremacist and globalist myopia has totally neglected the very least of its citizens. I speak as one who was once drug addicted and homeless, who slept in the Tenderloin doorways, allies in cardboard boxes and often with nothing but my black ass.

Finally, from ancient Egypt (Kemit) to the mythical African kingdom of Wakanda to America, national security can be comedic or tragic, but it should and must be addressed for the benefit of all its citizens, first and foremost! Woe to the hypocrites!

--MARVIN X

1/5/19