April Is National Poetry Month!
GOD BLAME AMERICA!!
"GOD BLAME AMERICA," APPEARS IN A "BLACK MANIFESTO IN
JAZZ POETRY AND PROSE."
TED JOANS
POET X PAINTER X FILMMAKER X JAZZ TRUMPETER
GOD BLAME AMERICA!!
America/Miss America is over paid, over fed, over stuffed and now over here!
America/poets dont fasten their flies no more
America/ shoes can not be worn out on fingers
America/Germany is just as strong as America under arms
America/Mickey the Mouse is colored
America/whiskey contains cigarette cancer
America/I lick stamps on the wrong side
America/ nine to five aint forever, is it?
America/your fliptop box is showing
America/your women sound like sex starved Donald Ducks
America/the electric chair is too comfortable for your officials
America/I do not want to be integrated into you
America/I continue eating watermelons on TV for a fee
America/Why do I scare thee when I attempt to live free?
America/hot dogs cant be hamburgers much longer
America/Jazz has won the youth of the world
America/rhinoceroses are lonely in the zoos
America/the ghosts of Indians haunt your family nightly?
America/many of them aint really ready, are they?
America/Kosher cats closed my contract to you
America/ screaming is still valid
America/I do believe you're afraid
America/Munchen maids dance black
America/I sing Round Bout Midnight
America/Your eyes are nervous
America/your handshake's a fake
America/your mask has slipped America/your whites arent hip
America/their blues aint sad
America/your image is bad
America/surrender to the East! Forget the West! Go it
alone, that's best!
America can you hear me? America, did you hear what
I said? America??
(a voice) FUCK YOU!
America/MAY I?
