Po' Poets Project/Poetas POBRES Proyecto
Jovenes, Adultos, Ancianos, luchando para sobrevivir y prosperar apesar de la opression racista y economica, usando nuestras voces, nuestra poesia, nuestros cuentos, nuestra arte para crear cambio localmente y atravez del mundo.
Youth, Adults, Elders struggling to stay alive and thrive through race and class oppression using our voices, our poetry, our stories, our art, to create change for poor folks locally and globally.
Those Are Your Hang-Ups ( Mother's Day 2012)
Those Are Your Hang-Ups
Verse 1
Breaking your assumptions
By just living
Black disabled man out in public chilling
This Poem is in honor of Mamaz/Este Poema es en honor a las madres
This poem is in honor of mothers
Krip-Hop Burning the Ballot at The Capital
Nazi slept with slave masters
Gave birth to Tea party members
Bill Clinton on the saxophone
While Obama tap dancing around racism
Occupy kicking out street folks
Facebook activism poke poke
Bill collectors on hold
Fuck paying off student loans
White House called me
I still have it on my answering machine
Could not deal with my advocacy
So they got the actress from GLEE
Uncle Sam wants me to pay my taxes
Yeah sure after I get my reparations
Youth with disabilities facing deportation
In the home & outside fear of execution
While media paints its own stories
Respect Panthers on Wheels
Roll out the red carpet
Here comes the Queen
Regaining her thrown
Wait! Wait! Wait!
The pack turned on her
Black Panthers going gray
The human & animal Kingdom eating their elders
April 15th Everyday On The Paper Trail
(The Chorus)
White paper, green paper get that paper
White paper, green paper get that paper
White paper, green paper get that paper
Doctor smacks your ass
You are off to the races
Parents say get an education
(The Chorus)
White paper, green paper get that paper
White paper, green paper get that paper
White paper, green paper get that paper
On stage, cap & gown rolled up white paper in your hand
High school diploma means nothing
Lint in my pocket feels like sand
Sign the doted line on white paper
To get some green paper called a loan
Vinieron Por Nosotros/Inspirado por el Son de Los Pollos
Inspirado por el son de los pollos
Trayvon is my son
For Trayvon, Ramarley, Oscar and Kenneth Harding and all of their mamaz
Trayvon is my son
and my brother and my uncle
and my coz-zin
and that aint no riddle
(Pacha) Mama's Arms
(dedicated to the powerful roots of the living tree uncovered at HOMEFULNESS asphalt lifting day and all trees cut down because of devil-opment, gentriFUkation and capitalism across Pachamama)
Property Monopoly
Property Monopoly- A poem for all Displaced peoples across Pachamama-( and the people that displace them)
Property Monopoly
buys one house
then the other
Evicts all the families
even their mothers
Moves People Out
Moves people in
Buys another house
but never sees within
"Clean up the Neighborhood",
