Fablespinners: Literature's Online Open Mic!

by Victor Om Shanti

Most, who think, believe to shrink from visiting violence
Without cause
On innocent neighbor is a must.
But, the deferring of force due to amoral stance
Is not peace.
Violence absent of consequences is not just.

I see the best (?) minds of my generation
Orgasmically howl when they
hear "Somebody Blew Up America".
To these incipient ebidiots,
This I want to make perfectly clear:

Nobody blew up America
Nobody ran when they coulda
To string the poet laureate
With neck encompassing lariat.

Nobody blew up America
Nobody can,
Nobody will,
Despite the publishing of
Demagogic diatribe swill.

America is a stream of consciousness,
Whose headwaters are
The river of desire,
Flowing out the spring of men's souls.

America is an oasis on a planet of refugees
Green collared with South African necklace
Yearning to breathe air free
Of the fashionable stench of political correctness.

No bombs, No fanatics, No fires, No matter
Of what degree,
Can burn,
bomb,
or falter
The dream founded here
To where others flee.

Nobody blew up America

Who can think it bright
To question without substance
Those we know are right.

Who was it that died to free slaves?
Who was it that wept at MLK's grave?
Who supplies the feelings, you quote as facts?
Who is it your CIA?
The Celebrity Innuendo Asinine -ation?

Who, who, who -o -o -o? You know who?
Nome saying?

Nobody blew up America.

Nobody blew America
Like that poverty pimp's
Blow up doll
You know who I'm hinting
The one who gave big fun
To the first nigger president
Bill Clinton.
Who didn't march in the gutters
When Christmas came, and,
The troops from Kosovo
didn't come?

Who crowed to the troops
In Bosnia
Without saying, No War,
To her hilarious host?

Which chick's so committed
To her principled stand
Against tyranny on the oppressed
That she's now whistling Dixie
From behind a bush
Because her speech with Texas messed

Who gave Sudanese blacks
Migraines from his attacks
On aspirin factories
With my cruise missiles
Without my Congressman's nod?
Because he knew
who blew
but not America, cuz,

Nobody blew up America.

Who marched in the street
To chant and repeat
No to Capitalism
No to Racism
No to War
Then ducked into back alley
To pay some whore
To destroy Napster's drain
on their financial core?

Who, Who, Who -o-o-o? You Know Who.
Nome saying?

Who invited welcome wagon
Humvee armor dispensing shit
Into Port-au-Prince
In order to install
A puppet at his beck and call
A Papa Doc replacement Jesuit?

Who, Who, Who -o-o-o-o? You Know Who.
Nome saying?

Who trooped out of graduation?
Who on Election Day goes on vacation?
Or if they show
Announce with glee
It's too hard to punch card punch
A tiny hole
Smaller than their IQ's
For the man from Tennessee.

Who gives opponents a curse
While fattening his purse
With moral bankruptcy?

Who threw peanuts
To perceived field hands,
While campaigning to be
Head massa?

Who did LeRoi Jones marry?
With who did Minister Farakhan tarry?
Who really gave drugs to Barry?
Who drove the car at Chappaquidick?
Who took Tawana Brawley to the bar?

Who, who, who-o-o-o? You know who.
Nome saying?

Nobody blew up America.
Nobody blew up America.
Cause, when it's America, sand-eaters try to dis,
A leather neck will drown his dying hiss
with his piss cocky refrain of:

Ya, can't touch this!

While putting America's boot up his ass!

Nobody blew up America.

Even if the New York Times
Is burned to the ground
With a torch from the Washington Post.

Nobody blew up America

Even if Teddy Kennedy
Gives up his booze
To live on a diet of treacle and toast.

Nobody blew up America

Who filled French wine bottles
With the blood of 200,000 G. I.'s
and kept German off the labels?

Who melted Hiroshima in nuclear cloud
Allowing occupied Japan
To buy up my land
And throw my ass into the street?

Who threw a wall around Berlin
So that Helmut Kohl doesn't speak Russian?
Whose boycott sprung Nelson Mandela from jail?
Whose moral leadership gave the bishop his tutu?
Who won't look the gift horse in the mouth?
Who lives in the North, and not the South?

Who opposes tax cuts on my wealth
So as to bribe me to slavery,
With my own cash,
As I beg 'em to care for my failing health?

Who dey in box laughing up dey sleeves
At fifteen slant-eyed aliens in one room living?
Who dey two years later paying dem aliens rent,
While polishing dey bling-bling?

Who, who, who - o- o-o ? You know who.
Nome saying?

In the long march of history,
Who told Sojourner the truth?
Who attacked Crispus?
Why did Attucks die?
Which party freed the slave?
Which party's moral stance
gave you the option to vote?
Which party promises welfare cradle to grave?
Who is it helps those keep jobs?
Who is it can stir up the mobs?
Who were the Dixiecrats?
Whose nickname in Senatorial cloakroom is "Sheets"?
Who run the railroad overground?
Who run the railroad underground?
Who slaves?
Who dispossessed from their nation?
Who cinching tighter notch on dey belts?
Who scalping reservation casino pelts?
Who sits on dey asses begging for reparation?
Who first run up San Juan hill?
Who on return did the Klan try to kill?
Who is the target of "Fool 'em today"?
Who were messmates, C.B.'s and Stevedores
In the Big War?
Which South Bronx homeboy general defeated Iraq?
Which Uncle Tomma
Calling Condeleeza a skeeza
Confused her with dey mamma?

Who, who, who -o-o-o? You know who.
Nome saying?

Who do y'all state we're in good hands with,
Only to find income, home ownership, and education down,
While incarcerations soar and our will to give up?
Who sanctified is storing up in heaven?
Here on Earth,
Who is it owns Channel 11?
Via whose com-
munications did Black ownership
of B.E.T. and Motown
get mowed down?
Who say, "No Justice, No Peace"?
Who say Black racism don't exist?
Quien dice, "Sabe Justicia, Sabe Paz"?
Who be the majority minority?
Who dey who say
America blew up?

America didn't blow up.
America won't blow up.
America can't blow up.

Cause,

America didn't blow up.
America is not just a country 'tis of thee.
America's more than two massive towers
Even aflame,
Abutting the sea.
America's not the Pentagon,
The Golden Gate,
Fred Flintstone, or
the stone garden at Arlington
artistically framing patriotic dead,
America's a constitutional construct
Of equality before law
Carried in our heads.

America won't blow up.
America's bedrock solid continental
foundation of fraternity, equality and liberty
Cannot be spindled, folded, mutilated or bent
to submission
By those for whom
Perdition awaits,
Not Hori at jewel belled gates.
America will be preserved by blessings
From on high
And well-armed, well-trained
Patriotic wells of citizen-soldiers nigh.

America can't blow up.
America is a quest for those yearning to be free.
America's the last best habitat for folks who see
Martin's mountain top dream hazy wavering overseas
America is a dream
America is just a dream
Just a dream
Just a dream
Just a dream

Sometimes, a dream deferred,
Sometimes, a dream detoured,
And yet, after all is criticized and damned,
A just dream,
A must dream,
To blood cuz like me,
and, hopefully,

YOU.