Small arms

Oh Motherland!!!

Conflict has given birth to a
Kalashnikov culture

Little arms
too small to reach
a blackboard
have grown big enough
to hold
the small arms
AR-15
9 mm
RPG
little fingers gripping a
hand grenade
or
an M-16
land mines disguised as toys
and of course the ubiquitous
AK-47

Babies playing
war for real
school is out
no food
no medicine
no family
only
small arms

Gangsterism from the west
has moved to the east
no music videos here
this soundtrack
comes from the cries
of the displaced

the marred

the dead

Little arms
in Detroit
reaching for little arms
in West Afrika
too short
to save each other
But
just the right size for
small arms

Cocaine mixed with gunpowder
is all they get
Keep ‘em moving
marching to
someone else’s agenda

Shoot to kill
Shoot to eat
Shoot to
grow up

amerikkka will not send food
nor troops
nor books
nor medicine…
only guns
and
more guns.
amerikkka will cry about
nukes in Korea
while
selling small arms
in
Angola
Cameroon
Kenya
Libya
Republic of Congo
Rwanda
Sierra Leone
Liberia
Sudan
Uganda

120,000 babies
with small arms
big enough to
kill

Children will do as they see
or
as they are trained
or
as they are beaten
to do…

The lords of war have spoken
and decreed that
THESE children
these AFRIKAN children
are not as important
as
diamonds
or oil
or timber
or the
millions
and
millions
and
millions of dollars
that small arms bring

Diamond smuggling
and arms trafficking
funded by oil revenues
create enough space
for Afrikan children
to fall
into.

This is nothing new
this Motherland has
ALWAYS
been the target
of the greedy
the amoral
the heartless
(they’re making a killing)
Why should black lives mean
anything now?

In Huston
Newark
Los Angeles
Boston
Atlanta
Miami
Chicago
Brooklyn
St. Louis
Black children
bring the noise
and
the profiteers
Profit
from our death

A line has been
drawn in blood
from
South Central
to
South Afrika

The sale of small arms
have made them
fat with riches
and in the end
there are no such things
as stray bullets
because…

they all have names on them.

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