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The
Protector
(about David White*)
You buy your clothes in spanish
harlem
You buy your clothes in spanish
harlem
but are the only one who gets
up befoe the sun
to grab those bargains
From a captain marvel comic
like a bolt of lightning flashing
through the streets
covering harlem
spying out investigating
inequities
odd and illicit deals
made by politicians
who allow aliens to do
what they dare not on their own
turf
Flashing through the streets
covering kickbacks
documenting the process of deals
made
to demonize the rightful rulers
who seek
to grow the community
documenting the process of deals
dealing away what we want and
never get
Rape of our village
Rape of our landmarks
Rape of our future
the minds of the children
of all things near and dear
to the underpinning of what
sustain
a people filled with hope
Flash like gordan
is no twenty first century
automaton or
other lifelike invention of
hollywood
wall street mad avenue moguls
but walks harlem streets checking
it
checking it out
checking it all
out calling names
calling the names of those
who would brother us into poverty
who would love us into oblivion
who would masculinize us into the
penitentiary
afro heads
slick shoes
mercedes benz
lexus
bnw's
and dreads with four by fours
brothering
godloving and killing
in the name of
in the name of
getting paid for whatever
what
is that it is
when whatever
what is
but Flash like gordan keeps them
in check
guarding with his eyes
looking over the old
first to be trampled upon
vy the Willie Lynch propaganda ded
the young
like old is useless wasted space
move on over or we'll move on over
you
Flash dances around under the
cover of obscurity
bashing and breaking the heads and
doors of
those who deceive and relieve you
of your will to live
the doors locking you our your
natural right
Quietly
moving
quietly you hear the huge roar
thundering skies bursting with
fire in the north
tremors shaking the
intestines in the south
smiling faces beaming sunrays
from the east say
like Flash
Payback is a mother . . .
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