#English
We Black men of England Too proud to cry for shame, Let’s cry a sea Cry publicly, Expose our very pain,
My ears are battered and burned an… i have just learned that i have be… listening to the wrong radio stati… My mind has been brutalised now th… I’ve been listening to the wrong r…
We first met on a golden night As the moon radiated love light On the dock of the bay. Somewhere between the real deal an… We lay unapologetically
Remember that vegan called Steven Yes he would not kill for no reaso… Well I saw him today Wearing nothing I say But some cabbage leaves
At the bottom of my garden There’s a hedgehog and a frog And a lot of creepy—crawlies Living underneath a log, There’s a baby daddy long legs
I am a veggie table A table made of veg, There’s so much fruit upon me All living on the edge, Life is hard
I waz walking down Wyefront stree… When me trousers ran away, I waz feeling incomplete But still me trousers would not st… When I found where they had gone
In Hawaii they Hula They Tango in Argentina They Reggae in Jamaica And they Rumba down in Cuba, In Trinidad and Tobago
They put a leather belt around her 13 feet of tape and bound her Handcuffs to secure her And only God knows what else, She’s illegal, so deport her
I come from a musical place Where they shoot me for my song And my brother has been tortured By my brother in my land. I come from a beautiful place
Dis poetry is like a riddim dat dr… De tongue fires a riddim dat shoot… Dis poetry is designed fe rantin Dance hall style, big mouth chanti… Dis poetry nar put yu to sleep
Be nice to yu turkeys dis christma… Cos’ turkeys just wanna hav fun Turkeys are cool, turkeys are wick… An every turkey has a Mum. Be nice to yu turkeys dis christma…
Smart big awards and prize money Is killing off black poetry It’s not censors or dictators that… The lure of meeting royalty And touching high society
When I see you I know life was ma… When I see you I don’t wanna die When I don’t see you, I sleep and… It’s the truth I am telling you,… Sometime I think I cant survive w…
I am the type you are supposed to… Black and foreign Big and dreadlocks An uneducated grass eater. I talk in tongues
