damn european heads

[mnaz]

peter tosh said it well
our god is black
with starlight

can't do much with white
but splash the fat colors
cast out of the garden
into prisons of history
ticking clocks

european heads
got a jump on the natives
incessant war for wealth

corporate god feed us
the people explosion spiral
pry open markets, viral
fly the logo proudly
bless the troops

[dadio]

good capture.

[mnaz]

i was just talking to one of my right-wing brothers down in the desert about this very issue today. strange how we agree sometimes..

[Arcadia]

I don´t know... maybe god is the problem...

liked the dialogue-politic-musical-theory-of-color threads in this, bravo!!!

[mnaz]

thanks arcadia!
guess i was listening to too much of that subversive reggaeroots this weekend . . .

[saw]

had the pleasure of seeing peter tosh a few years back.....very cool ...and so was your poem

[mnaz]

thanks steve. never saw any of the wailers live; only steel pulse and wailing souls... did chalk portraits of both bob marley and peter tosh several years ago...

the first line is from tosh's "black dignity," but it was actually a lee perry dub (with a killer syncopated bass line) that got me going on this one . . .