ever notice how it’s only the ugly
honkies
who hate
like Hitler was an ugly dude
same with lyndon
ike nixon hhh wallace maddox
and all the governors of mississippi
and you don’t ever see a good-looking
cop
perhaps this only relates to the physical
nature of the beast
at best interesting for a beast
and never beautiful
by that black standard
if dracula came to town now
he’d look like daley
booing senator ribicoff
no pretty man himself
but at least out of the beast
category
yet all had to describe julian bond
as the handsome black legislator
which is, of course, redundant
life put muskie and huskie humphrey
on the cover
and we were struck by a thought:
“if we must be screwed—they could at least be pretty”
but the uglies kill
all the pretties
like john and bobby
and evers and king
and if caroline don’t look
out she’ll be next
arthur miller spoke of the white things
jumping wildly on their feet
banging their paws together
hating the young
only this time they were hating
their young
a salute to the chicago kids
now you and the world knows
we weren’t lying
a cracked skull in time
may save mine
(though i doubt it)
and hhh says we ought to quit pretending
what daley did was wrong
We aren’t pretending
We didn’t give a damn
you guys ought to get yourselves
together
eating your kids is a sexual
perversion
the politics of ’68 remind us grievously
of the politics of ’64
the deal to put the bird
and his faggoty flock in the white nest
(which began in dallas)
is being replayed and repaid
(the downpayment being made in los angeles)
with tricky dicky to win this time
(the final payment chicago)
cause there’s only two parties in this country
anti-nigger and pro-nigger
most of the pro-niggers are now dead
this second reconstruction is being aborted
as was the first
the pro-niggers council voting
the anti-niggers have guns
if we vote this season we ought to seek to make it
effective
the barrel of a gun is the best
voting machine
your best protest vote
is a dead honkie
much more effective than a yes
for gregory or cleaver
this negative bullshit
they run on us
is to tie us up in identification
“you don’t want nixon-agnew do you?”
“well vote for humphrey-muskie”
but all you honkies are alien
to me
and i reject the choice
it’s the same game they run
about nigeria
“whose side are you on?”
the black side, fool
how many times must i show that?
taking sides is identifying
and that is commitment
be committed to us
and don’t deal with them
as long as we choose one evil over another
(on some bullshit theory that it’s lesser)
we’ll have bullshit evil to deal with
let’s build a for real black thing
called revolution
known to revolutionists as
love
the obvious need is a new liberal white party
to organize liberal and radical honkies
this will lessen but not remove the clear and present
danger
to us
we need to continue our fight to control
all of america
honkies are just not fit to rule
these are sorry but true facts—not one honkie is fit to
rule
the worst junkie or black businessman is more humane
than the best honkie
no black person would have allowed
his troops to be so slaughtered
and before you scream “king king”
his promise was your picture in the paper
and your head in bandages
mccarthy (the administration’s official dissident
candidate)
was not so honest
there are those who say he began with lyndon’s blessings
and the promise of good speaking engagements
and since we have witnessed the assassination of one who
didn’t need the money
or have the blessing
we are inclined to agree
and daley talked of teddy not making up his mind
he said no
that’s pretty definite
only it’s sad that once again
we have a chance we aren’t fully
utilizing
the honkies are at war to decide what to do
about us
and here we are
trying to get
into what every sensible person should be running
from
when we integrated the schools
they began moving away from public education
when we integrated the churches
they started the god is dead bit
now we’re integrating politics
and they’re moving to a police state
we ought to beat them to the punch
and pull off our coup
and take over, with arms and everything necessary,
our communities
post-election note:
those of us breathing easy now that wallace
wasn’t elected
check again
that’s gas you’re smelling
survival is still the name of the game
black people still our only allies
life or death still our only option
let’s me and you do that thing
please?