Thursday, May 22, 2014

GORILLAS IN THE MIST (2014 Version)

By Sekou OSEI

Dedicated to our contemporary Black journalistic concession:
Or  they observe nothing and celebrate everything.



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              As men
                     stare
                            at once blue
                                              skies
                                                   under
                                                           the eyes of
                                                                           Gorillas
                                                                                        in
                                                                                          the
                                                                                              Mist.
lit match

           As we ride buses
                                     pretending
                                     to be working
                                         just
                                                posturing,


           As on point
                             NEGROS
                             of cowardly
                             porno
                             films
                                  of image
                                  mystification
           of righteous
           NEGROS
           under the corporate
                                   state
                                        of
                                           under
                                                 a “Buckwheat” democracy
                                                                              under
                                                                                       the eyes of
                                                                                                        Gorillas
                                                                                                                in
                                                                                                                   the
                                                                                                                      Mist
            As NEGROS
                            drink their
                                         own
                                               empty
                                                         seduction
            Dancing to
                              a
                                jukebox
                                             of
                                                 no
                                                     music:
                                                               posturing
                                                                             the
                                                                                  GREAT

                                                                                              
pretend.

As huge Gorillas
                   snarl and growl
                                 with
                                 outrageous teeth
                                                  and
                                                    beat their
                                                            huge
                                                    Black leather
                                                                  chest
                   in a silent movies,
                                         that quickly becomes
                                                                unplugged
                                                                    or
                                                                       the
                                                                           lights
                                                                              are
                                                                                   simply
                                                                                         switched on
                    only to
                               become
                                            a
                                               sissy
                                                      memory
                                                                   of lets
                                                                             pretend.


            As centrists
                               teaching journalism
                               of celebration
                                                   of lets
                                                             make-believe
                                                                                 of
                                                                                   bearing
                                                             Becoming soaked
                                                                             pretending
                                                                                       the rain is not falling.
           As an East African
                                     teaching
                                                 Blacks of the West,
                                                                          the need to sensationalize
                                                                                               Black trivia
                                                                                               As militancy.

Just Do it !

           While, the not so
           secret to be foretold
            that
                 centrists
                       almost
                          always
                              accommodate
                                 the rationality
                                  of the psychopaths
                                                         in power,
       
           Of colorful Negros
           wearing a color
                            past
                             of
                    “Make-believe”
                     with their isolated
                     backyards
                           of
                     militants
                             under
                                    the eyes
                                            of
                                              gorillas
                                                     in
                                                         the
                                                             mist
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          So with the
                       grand fake gold earrings
                                 of
                       over weight Black
                                                    men
                        of three hundred pounds of beads
                                 on their
                                            wrist
                                               trying
                                                       to affect
                        the mirror shadows
                                              of
                                                   a
                                                      wise
                                                              elder,
                                   only to be seen
                                    as an empty
                                                       paper cup
                                    mumbling
                                    memories
                                          of Marcus Garvey
                                                          under
                                                                    the
                                                                       eyes
                                                                            of
                                                                              gorillas
                                                                                     in
                                                                                        the
                                                                                            mist.
                 As this grand mammal
                                            beaches
                                            amicably
                 before the projector
                                             becomes
                                                          unplugged.
                 As these centrists
                                 host stages
                                           fof
                                              an
                                               over
                                                    sexed
                                                       make-believe
                                                                women
                                                                    of
                                                                        the
                                                                             Sudan
                    who
                           are
                               madly
                                         in
                                            love
                                               with
                                                 Zionist
                                                         Israel,
                      who argue
                                  the question
                                                   of race
                                                         through
                                                                   the fight
                                                                              of
                                                                        complexion.
                       Who claim
                                          to fame
                                                     was
                                                            to be a forced concubine and harlot
                        to a Saudi princeling of US money
                                                                          through
                                                                          a Pakistani restaurant called
                                                                          ISI to fight Moscow in Kabul.   

                       While the editors
                                                 are
                                                    looking
                                                               for
                                                         something
                                                                       to celebrate,
                        through long hours
                                                  of multi-tasking
                                                                        only
                                                  phone tag
                                                  and multi-tasking
                                                         head games
                                                         of empty
                                                                postures.
                      Whose media
                                has no role
                                of giving informred presence
                                for Black people are good for symbolic
                                                           FEEL GOOD
                                                           never to be informed
                                                           of how to wage their struggle.
                                 Because, they don't need to rock
                                                                            the boat
                                                                            of a
                                                                               “Buckwheat”
                                                                                           Democracy.
Barack Obama made numerous promises when he ran for president. He ...

          As history unplugged
                                this film projector
                                                  of this snarling gorilla.
         As Black mothers
                                  of Texas
         Become members
                                  of silent movies
                                        as state-run social services kidnapped their children
                                                with the silence
                                                                       of make-believe
                                                                       Black newspapers,
                                                                              under
                                                                                      the
                                                                                          eyes
                                                                                              Gorillas
                                                                                                         in
                                                                                                           mist.
                            Who don't produce
                                                   anything
                                                               of
                                                                 who  men
                                                                                once stared at once blue skies,
                                                                                looking for insight,
                               only to see the inadequate
                                                                   silence
                                                                           of pedophiles
                                                                           in sport showers
                                                                           of Pennsylvania,
                                 But
                                       were wordless
                                                       about sportsmen
                                                                          pedophiles
                                                                                           of the Bronx
                                                                                                    for months. 
                                For these celluloid gorillas
                                                                   lack the vision
                                                                                     of relevance
                                gorillas
                                    who pretend to be journalists
                                    never understood that there was
                                    a duty to throw a light on
                                    the state of affairs of the people and their
                                                                                             majority
                                                                                                      class.
                                    There is the plight of
                                                                 surrender,
                                                                          because their vision is plugged into a 
                                                                                      film
                                                                           projector of convenience.
                                                                           Because of their tie to machine
                                                                           of empty images,
                                                                                    they observe nothing
                                                                                                  and
                                                                                     celebrate everything.

                                                                          
                  For image gorillas, its easy to pledge criticism,
                                                            but harder to be critical.
                                                            For these gorillas, only ask us to
                                                                                                    celebrate,
                                                             but never to think.
                  Perhaps history will
                              show we must unplug
                                                    the projector to relevance.....
                                                                         under
                                                                           the
                                                                          eyes
                                                                               of
                                                                                  the
                                                                                      gorillas
                                                                                         in
                                                                                           the
                                                                                              mist
                                        
                                    
        

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