Niggers

We have arrived

but no one knows where to

just that the press about us is tempered

with other news swirling about us.

There's always something wrong

some suspicion that'll attract attention:

too good, too rich, over-sexed, too Black

acceptable with and edge to be trimmed.

Our men merit prison still

while DNA's confess us innocent of crimes

violent one committed before justice became scientific

but well after the jails were built.

Who'll expose the victimized of then

or hand these the last paycheck owed to them?

Our Condoleezza's and Powell's deflect our niggratude

toward something akin to fashion, American-style.

In forty-years we've made amazing strides

enough to disclaim their kind from us

each standing on her own, Clarence Thomas at their side.

An amazing group we are

to slave decades into nothin'

that no one owes us nothin';

having reached the top

that murder's our path to the bottom.

Our deaths are often violent

practicing what our genes learned long ago.

The Greeks knew nothing of comedy

for our tragedies are the humors of the court.

We praise the Lord for His goodness

cause once the tide has changed

we'll recognize ourselves again: 

great entertainers with humor

niggers till our dying day. 

*The emerging mystics:

-The new spirituality will be first and foremost an experience of creative energy and inspiration.

  Nicholas Berdyaev

-You get this overwhelming sense of how small you are in the Arctic.  You can't ignore the fact you're only a part of a vast whole.  And it wants you.  It's not there for you.  We're there for it.

Timothy Findley

-The idea is not merely to believe in spiritual intuitions, but to rely on them.

  Peter C. Newman

-In ritual space, the competition disappears.

  Robert Bly

-I would like to end up sitting on the end of my grave and saying, "Well, I didn't win the Noble Prize, and I didn't win the Pulitzer Prize but I won the Refrigerator Award.

Robert Fulghum