Original Poetry…"I Don't Understand"
I dont understand…I want to understand…Help me understand
I want to understand why desperation of dreams differed are differed into crack, cocaine and heroin. Drug dealers desperate to sale desperation to desperate people, people selling people like African tribes before slavery, but the oppressor now is a needle and this needle is the offspring of God and the devil, So I want to know how it feels to have my veins infiltrated with oppression and desperation, so I can appreciate freedom from addiction.
I want to understand while eating cupcakes with a fifth generation KLU-Klux-Klan member, inside a diner with my elbows on the confederate flag placemats…placed before me by a white woman named Dotty, who quite obviously spit in my coffee and called me nigger not even five minutes beforehand, I gonna sip that coffee, So I can truly taste prejudice, I need real racism, not the diluted version of merely being followed in a store, I need hatred to run through my veins, so I can appreciate love.
I want to understand what the gun and knife were feeling as you picked out your next victim, inflicting cold-icy death on dozens of people, because murder is just a game played by those who dont care if they die. Genocide, massacres, serial killings. Stabbed him 96 times, placed 29 bullets in her head, butchered my cat 9 times, so I want to trade places with nine of your dead victims, so I can cherish the gift of life.
I want to understand, I want to lay my head on the chest of a child molester let him stroke my hair as he replays his fantasies of five year old adolescent Hannah Montana fans In my ear, as he speaks of mangled bodies bathed in blood and glitter with no shame, feel him cough twice and swallow his virus, repulsion causing me to vomit, I want to feel true sickness, So I can praise god for my health.
I want to understand a women’s torture, why she goes to sleep in a jail-cell bedroom, husbands protruding veins representing tyranny, where domestic and violence are never together in the dictionary and she doesn’t want the world to see, so she covers her life with dark glasses and her vision becomes impaired, so for the next hour I want to see through her husbands eyes, so I know what it means to be blind.
I want to understand, Merging my flesh Into the body of an ex ballerina as her knees smack the cold bathroom floor I want my throat to burn, as she hurls her pain into a porcelain bowl, fell the utter agony of her bowels bleeding from the 7th laxative, as she sits in prayer position In front of a mirror staring at a fat pulpy demon, swearing it’s her reflection, as she chases perfection. I want undergo this self hatred, So I can value my self esteem.
I want to understand…but no one has the answers, some stories have no happy endings…
Hi Jonathan,
I like the poem. It is very vivid. To read it was a very textile experience in some ways at least for me. I think, however, that poems are better in spoken form that way inflection, meter and rhythm can be established to accentuate the intensity of the poem’s message. As a spoken-word artist, I am sure you already know this fact so I am speaking to the Choir as they say.
I was thinking that Nate said there was a possibility of pod-cast. So maybe we (by we, I mean you and he) could be in conversation about creating a recording of it and putting it up. Better yet, since you do performances why not record a video pod-cast of you performing this piece? All of which, would bring a new edge to what we (Black youth Project bloggers) are trying to accomplish in this forum.
Thanks bro…I think it is unique opportunity for us to reach out to the spoken-word community!
Hi Jonathan,
I like the poem. It is very vivid. To read it was a very textile experience in some ways at least for me. I think, however, that poems are better in spoken form that way inflection, meter and rhythm can be established to accentuate the intensity of the poem’s message. As a spoken-word artist, I am sure you already know this fact so I am speaking to the Choir as they say.
I was thinking that Nate said there was a possibility of pod-cast. So maybe we (by we, I mean you and he) could be in conversation about creating a recording of it and putting it up. Better yet, since you do performances why not record a video pod-cast of you performing this piece? All of which, would bring a new edge to what we (Black youth Project bloggers) are trying to accomplish in this forum.
Thanks bro…I think it is unique opportunity for us to reach out to the spoken-word community!