Poetry Break: I DON'T LIKE THE GOVERNMENT

There's nothing like the spoken word. It's addictive.
Feel me?




I Don't Like the Government
By Alexzenia Davis

I don't like the government
Not because it's okay to feel it out
Not because it's my first amendment right to speak it aloud
Not because of the German and Irish men
That they made shack up like cattle in tenements
Not because of the riches they went to find
But instead returned from Africa with several slave lines
Not because of the Natives they pushed to the side
When they realized this new world was occupied
Not because they quarantined those innocent poorJapanese men during the **2ND WORLD** War
Not because they decided to look for oil
I mean weapons of mass destruction on Iraqi soil
Not because they tried to convince blacks of their significance
While leaving 399 black men infected with syphilis
Not because there rose a sea of brown
As hundreds of people in New Orleans drowned
Not because of the bullets that rang out like hell
When the cops fired 40 plus shots at Diallo and Bell
Not because those black boys labeled the Jena Six
Faced an original 100 years in prison because they just didn't mix
Not because of the lack of compensation
Not because this is a hypocritical nation
Not because Kanye West said that Bush doesn't like blacks
No, not because of NONE of that...
I just don't like the government