{"id":176441169,"date":"2014-08-01T01:27:26","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T06:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/?p=176441169"},"modified":"2014-08-01T02:45:15","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T07:45:15","slug":"poem-can-we","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/2014\/08\/01\/poem-can-we\/","title":{"rendered":"POETRY: CAN WE?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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CAN WE?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

(for Ken Saro Wiwa)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

1.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

suppose<\/span><\/p>\n

the thot<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \/police<\/span><\/p>\n

took our words<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

seriously<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

treated us like the real po-po:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

cut us down<\/span><\/p>\n

on suspicion<\/span><\/p>\n

of being<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

dangerous, just in case<\/span><\/p>\n

we actually<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

are serious<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

2.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

some of us forget<\/span><\/p>\n

ken\u2019s killers<\/span><\/p>\n

were the folk<\/span><\/p>\n

who threw fela\u2019s mother<\/span><\/p>\n

out the window<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

3.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

a little while ago<\/span><\/p>\n

i took a hot shower<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

was ken able to wash<\/span><\/p>\n

before the hanging?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

4.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

everybody be talking abt<\/span><\/p>\n

the morning after<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

what abt<\/span><\/p>\n

the night before<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

any thots<\/span><\/p>\n

on that?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

5.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

when i look into the mirror<\/span><\/p>\n

of my life<\/span><\/p>\n

experiences<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

do i see anything<\/span><\/p>\n

that would lead me to believe<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

that i would be willing<\/span><\/p>\n

to die for my beliefs?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

6.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

suppose<\/span><\/p>\n

you had to take full<\/span><\/p>\n

responsibility<\/span><\/p>\n

for every word<\/span><\/p>\n

you uttered<\/span><\/p>\n

no matter how little<\/span><\/p>\n

you meant it<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201creally, i was just joking around<\/span><\/p>\n

i didn\u2019t mean to tell the truth\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

7.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

can we<\/span><\/p>\n

afford<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

not to be<\/span><\/p>\n

serious?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

can we?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

can we be<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

like ken<\/span><\/p>\n

saro wiwa was<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

strong<\/span><\/p>\n

straight up<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018til<\/span><\/p>\n

the end?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2014kalamu ya salaam<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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          CAN WE? (for Ken Saro Wiwa) \u00a0 \u00a0 1. suppose the thot \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \/police took our words \u00a0 seriously \u00a0 treated us like the real po-po: \u00a0 cut us down on suspicion of being \u00a0 dangerous, just in case we actually \u00a0 are serious \u00a0 \u00a0 2. some of us […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[6],"tags":[4,12,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176441169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176441169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176441169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176441183,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176441169\/revisions\/176441183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176441169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176441169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176441169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}