Love My Black Job

Love my Black Job— Black Student Union Job! Hired at L.A. City College As “The Peoples Poet!”

Love my Black Job — opening For Baldwin on the football field Seven or eight thousand pairs of Ears on loan!

Love my Black Job — had a lil Following — but learned, in time, what I Didn’t know was enough to get People Killed.

Love my Black Job — ensconced in Jazz Cats’ world of ‘sheddin’ as breathing; Hooked on their carrot-celery juice, clean Vegetarian diets …

Love my Black Job — heard an Angel From Bombingham — and caught a case of German materialism — got Dialectical and historical ‘bout things Black …

Love my Black Job — an African-American Employee of IBM (Italian Business Men) — Associate of a prominent NY crime family Promoted me: “The Town Crier!”

Love my Black Job — 104 year-old Jewish Woman taught me meditation in her Manhattan Haunts — bakery/coffee shop — where she Posted up, entourage in tow, and held court daily

Love my Black Job — at the Schomburg — Standing On Langston’s ashes; Getting one last photo with Amiri — the other Jersey Boy I followed fan-boyishly Coast to coast!

Love my Black Job— 2016 tenure— rebutting Boss Tweet’s Blitzkrieg! MAGAt team 140-character-fecal explosions—all Caps! Tortured my friends into fetal positions—or sent them Scurrying to put passports in order …

Love my Black Job — when Duopoly singers show up teaching Dead end $campaign/$election songs; And stiff, wooden, 2/4 Dances they call ‘Democracy’ — sans Socialist, Communist, Labor parties — Sidelined and silenced …like the lambs …

Love my Black Job — Last Days of Pompeo; low Barr Bible beatdowns. Flash-bang, baton, teargas punctuated! Love my Black Job doing what Douglass said do — to Covert clown/acrobats dangling from a dictator’s warhead!

Love my Black Job— defeat Boss Tweet elite— MAGAt Budapest biting the body politic! M-pox poisoned Gremlin Grifter. Asset whose addled brain’s eaten away by wet dreams: Playing Pinochet — 1st 100 Daze — of Day One …

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