Title: Nothing Political
Theme: political
Date: 7-15-03
Author: Heartstarter


Fuck your pretense,
call a spade a spade-
just don't name it nigger
or cracker or honky or tom no matter
how colored the ignorance and

shake the sugar from your coat,
call that cunt a cunt-
but not if it shops uptown or
sticks itself to a sunday pew
or gives the best blow-jobs around

don't pull the punch,
call a prick a prick-
just not if it signs your paycheck or
is a good provider or preaches
community unity at the VFW and

suck that decorum,
call the victim a victim-
but only if it fought back, left marks,
dressed appropriatly, lived to tell about it
on the channel 2 news and not

if it rides poles to pay rent or
trades pussy for crack on southside,
works the zombie shift at Porno-Emporium
or lives in a row house with dingy windows

so spill it on the chalk line,
strip it to the bone and spit-
lick it till it bleeds
the same scarlet as mine.

good golly, this was raw and angry and... friggin awesome (i'm sooo 14 years old right now)

this rocked me, hard. great writing.

Brilliant writing. This is the sort of thing I like in political, something that slams your face. You won't get away with this on many American led poetry forums, one which (last year) banned a poem by Alice Walker herself when she wrote about a white lorry driver knocking down a black child in 1962 "the little nigger/got in the way" he said// to an understanding cop/ who would not even look/ at the black ball of rags.

I know this cos Alice Walker told a poetry friend of mine!

That is what I like about Drytear, it's not full of little gods who want everyone to write about nature or the almighty.

I think this is fabulous and would make an awesome addition to our book!

I wanted to add this but got beaten to it by Samantha Stevens!

Wow. This was incredible. Way to shoot straight and tell it like it is. :) (That sounds cheesy, I know, but I'm fumbling for words.)

I especially loved your last stanza. Well done.

Kick ass ending. I loved the whole poem but am totally in love with the ending. Great job.

Samantha Stevens! lol

hardly!

i just can't keep myself from reading this one!