Tournament: GSU | Round: 1 | Opponent:  | Judge: 

After the end of the world/ after death/ I found myself in the/midst of life/ creating myself/ building life/ people animals landscapes . . ./ people eat to live/ I kept saying to myself/ human life is important/ human life has great importance / the value of life is greater than the value of all things which man has created/ man is a great treasure

I repeated stubbornly . . .” ⁴

History is a nightmare from which I am dying to awake.   

"Greed nailed the world together into one snarling, scratching, fighting ball of human hatreds. We are One, cried the priest with black hypocrisy; we are One cried Science with pale contradiction. We are not One and never will be, cried the Crowd as they chased bawling scoundrels and bitches into the dens of Gain. They made armies, well-regulated whorehouses and rationed gin mills. They built beautiful battleships to spew out at frequent ports great bunches of wild young stallions to rape the frightened women oflowly races and cheaper classes.

"They lied with prayer and cheated on the altars of sacrifice. Yesterday men likeangels of Resurrection flew up into the sun-kissed skies and burned the homes and flattened the shops and ripped the guts out of women and children to the Glory of God and Love of Man. Valiant knights sneaked beneath the blackness of deep waters to rip the bellies out of unsuspecting [End Page 266] argosies filled with clothes and food and steel for the starving and freezing, whosecries swept the Seven Seas.

"Such was the brave and heroic battle of the bastards and skunks who were decorated with medals and stars.They did to others just what others did to them and more and worse if anyway possible. They kicked the Prince of Peace in the teeth and crowned him with bayonets. Great nations, too poor to build schools, libraries and hospitals, were rich enough to build magnificent warships at ten million dollars apiece, to prowl the seas for prey or scare the weak into slavery. They could not cure Cancer, but they could spread Syphilis. “

"Now come the statesmen in serried ranks, brave in apparel and venerable in mien: the Sons of Beliel from London; the snakes from Paris; the jackals from Vienna; and the rats of the First Families of Germany. Stupid old generals and half-baked colonels; ignorant Admirals and Captains who will now blunder and waste, kill and cripple, strut and whore and swagger, and come home to be made rulers of men, to talk wisely of matters of which they knew nothing, while hysterical women gape, dribble and applaud.

"It will be One War, from 1914 on and on for a century, a war with only interludes of Starvation and Insanity. The preachers and priest—the bishops and metropolitans begin to run, begin to climb their towers to escape the rising, licking filth of blood and spittle, begin to explain, begin to remind and prophesy: Hear ye. Hear ye! Make straight the way of the Lord, God of Greed! The rapt Buddha of the East, reincarnate in Christian machines, seize arms and beat Nirvana into the brains of Moslems, while Moslems mad with hate preach Holy War.

"The lowly white Jesus of the West will turn the other cheek and kick his black brother in the jaw so hard that all his bloody broken teeth will seed the earth and popup as well-oiled machine guns, spraying death on vermin called Men.

"The Son of God went forth to War, a kingly crown to gain; only he was twins, he was quintuplets; he fought himself. Protestant fought Protestant; Catholic killed Catholic; Moslem murdered Moslem; Jew electrocuted Jew; Buddhist butchered Buddhist, and all killed each other. Even Baptist baptized Baptist in pools of hot and filthy blood. It was a last Supper of the Lords of earth, sky and Hell. “²

They "produced to destroy and destroyed to produce and paradox birthed maniac, made men murderers and women prostitutes and children foundlings and turned the world insane. [End Page 267]

"The kingly crown was a wreath of colonies, studded with gold and diamonds and festering with tubercles, cancers and syphilis; packed with care and suspicion in ships and trains plastered with mud and oiled with human blood. . .“²

It’s the jungle It’s the reality

The divine glory and the lions rumble

rippin air tides in the atmosphere

loudly humming like a  mosquito in the ear

is the belly of the beast

you hear in the night really clear

“War is Murder and murderers murder, until all is done and there is Peace and Nothing. After Phantasmagoria, learned jackasses, spawning like flies, in lovely olduniversities will explain it all in thick books and cadent lectures: Everybody was right; nobody was wrong; all was Logic and Rhythm and Evolution; all was Good for the Greater Good. And all readers and hearers will be silent for none will believe a word of what is said.

"Ends fighting Ends; War ending War; Good to stop Evil; Evil to birth God. Virtue, Bravery, Honor and Disease.

"Then the silent, hidden God of gods—how he will flay the liars and the scoundrels; how he will loose more Hell on earth to show the sacred world what Sons of Bitches we are—

"For I have been wrong. I have blamed Generalities and Others. But it's me, it's me, O lord, standing in the need of prayer. It's me and you who are guilty of this war. We right here sought Liberty and established Slavery.” ²

OH SLAVERY! “I will now say something of slavery. I shall say nothing but what I know to be true. Slavery is a cruel system. The effects of it are scattered abroad throughout the land. It is the reigning evil of the country; yea, the mother of all evil. Why is it the mother of all evil? I answer in the language of Holy Writ, which saith, "Do unto all men as you would have them do unto you." It is not done. Again: "Love thy neighbor as thyself. This is the law and the prophets." It is not done. Reader,--where is the slaveholder who would wish his slaves to do to him as he does to them? There are none. Hence, then, the enormity of the evil.Dear reader: understand one thing. The slaves are taught ignorance as we teach our children knowledge. They are kept in darkness, and are borne down under a cruel, cruel oppression! All human rights aredenied them as citizens! They are not recognized as men! My old master frequently said, "he did not believe a d--d nigger had any soul!" They are made to undergo everything as a beast. Having a full, perfect, undeniable right to stand out before God as MEN, the cruel, God-defying white man, without semblance of right, with no pretense but might, has prostituted them to the base purpose of his cupidity, and his baser beastly passions, reducing them to mere things, mere chattels, to be bought and sold like hogs and sheep!Born, like the white man, to an individual responsibility to the Father of mercies, the treatment of the white man to the poor African, unmixed with mercy, hascurtained his mind to all knowledge, aye, even to the knowledge of the God of heaven and earth, and thus removed from him the accountability! But, where does this terrible accountability rest? Let the hardened slave-tyrant, when he stands quivering before the Almighty bar of retribution, answer this question! Well might Thomas Jefferson remark, when his deep, penetrating mind was reflecting upon the stupendous wrongs of slavery, "I tremble for my country, when I remember that God is just, and that his justice cannot slumber forever." I appeal, then, to every rational, intelligent mind, if slavery be not an abomination in the sight of the Lord. It has been said that slaves have no intellect. I deny it. God has given them minds capable of cultivation. Uncultivated ground will not bring forth fruit. All the slave requires is cultivation, for he is possessed of all the qualities of the white man. “ ¹

They “We preached Brotherhood and built the Color bar. Wetaught our children that Negro Slavery was right and Negroes stupid, inferior and nasty. We declared that we never fought to defend slavery or made every effort to restore it. Weset the world the example of a democracy founded on inequality and the world answered with the world wide serfdom ofcolored peoples. We helped turn the abolition of the African slave trade into the factory system and the private ownership of tools and materials and captivity of labor by low wages for whites and none for blacks. Shame on the world which seeks thus to rule the world. . . . “ ²

Moving

Closer Syncopated with a rhythm

All in the name of USA and “freedom”

Or should we call this free”doom”

All for progress

Progress is our diety

Capitol is our religion

But annihilation and massive international wars for sovereignty

As the templates for national power and independence

An inevitable world demolition

…

“That is what it is” ²

Do you feel it in the air 

Liberation we lust for it

Salvation we yearn for it

Dream Big

Black people stacked in cages

Brown people communities policed and surveillance

Different fronts troubled in multiple stages

They hyphee in our hoods

Poppin a couple prescriptions

Chiefing

Toss back ounces

Snort a white snow

Just to smile

to deal and cope

With ya realities

Drink our tears

Rowdy in the clubs

Dime crack rocks

Submerge our fears

Inhale Exhale the fumes from dope

So just Dance in the dark

Until The World Ends

“That is what it is; that was what it had to be. But that was not the way it will bepainted for innocent children to learn.Loyal liars will slap the colors on great heroes and war-lords; outline their magnificent plans and wide-visioned leadership; make the era of war the birth of Life instead of the beginning of Death. Soworld war will start again and again; why not? What else can happen? Until men stop fighting because none are left to fight.

"And this in after ages will be the tale which Arachnid tells Amoeba about the incredible incident of Man and Earth. Nor will Amoeba believe it—for did not Man have brains?’” ²

“From Greek democracy to Christian love to modernity’s promise of utopia—the human story has been a series of grand narratives, each consuming and evolving beyond the one that came before. Reason eclipsed faith, freedom eclipsed tyranny and industry eclipsed the agrarian way of life.

Transition was not always easy, but even when we stumbled and regressed—enduring bubonic plagues, barbarian invasions and interminable periods of darkness—there was always the unspoken assumption that, through it all, we will persist…that despite all the moral, spiritual and ideological blows, the human story goes on.

But then the world was ablaze in one brutal war after another. We bore witness to the Holocaust, Hiroshima and Nagasaki—a seemingly endless nightmare of genocide, sorrow and sin.                          We suffered loss of existential capital like never before, and our faith in the inherent goodness of man began to waiver. And just as our spiritual house was beginning to crumble, violent fissures tore across our physical world.”

It was happening!

Not even Nietzsche could have foretold the mystical amalgamation of melancholy, terror and life-affirming ecstacy weaving its way through the last chapters of man.” ³