#EnglishWriters
I am the type you are supposed to… Black and foreign Big and dreadlocks An uneducated grass eater. I talk in tongues
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
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
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
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
The coconuts have got the jobs. The race industry is a growth indu… We despairing, they careering. We want more peace they want more… The Uncle Toms are getting paid.
In Hawaii they Hula They Tango in Argentina They Reggae in Jamaica And they Rumba down in Cuba, In Trinidad and Tobago
We know who the killers are, We have watched them strut before… As proud as sick Mussolinis’, We have watched them strut before… Compassionless and arrogant,
Take some Picts, Celts and Silur… And let them settle, Then overrun them with Roman conq… Remove the Romans after approxima… Add lots of Norman French to some
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
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…
There was a young vegan Called Steven, Who just would not kill for no rea… This kid would not eat No cheese or no meat
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 whitemailed By a white witch, Wid white magic An white lies, Branded by a white sheep
Mirror mirror on the wall Could you please return our ball Our football went through your cra… You have two now Give one back.
