FIRST CALL:
Calling all 21st century poets,
hardcore, vitriolic, underground poets,
outspoken, word-guerrilla poets
to change the system,
declare war on class and privilege,
homelessness, poverty, hunger and ignorance;
hoist the flag, carry the torch
of love, peace and equality;
build pyramid pyres, set the world ablaze
with scorching (truth) is power-knowledge.
Calling all 21st century poets,
to condemn, tear down, pulverize
stone-age myth, lore, superstition,
recycled refrigerated hypocrisy, falsehood
and questionable paradigms.
Calling, calling, calling 21st century poets,
underground, guerrilla, outspoken,
spoken-word poets,
to deliver scathing words, harsh verbal assaults,
tauting tirades, oratorical deathblows,
against tyranny, intimidation, torture,
executions, blanket assassinations,
and forced suicides;
against racism, sexism, bigotry
and ethnic cleansing;
against border vigilantism fisted in
discriminatory nationalism;
against executive, legislative, judicial exclusion,
slavery, genocide and extinction;
against pseudo-historians and philosophers,
teachers and preachers personifying hatred,
positing race theory, supremacy -
vocalizing incendiary phrases, sentences,
igniting fiery fanaticism
coded in the written and the spoken word.
Calling to arms all 21st century poets,
dissident, revolutionary lip-masters
to hurl explosive word bombs
at corrupt, self-serving institutions
dumbing down a populace to grovel at the feet
of power-driven, theo-philosophical gurus
and eccentric social planners.
Calling all 21st century poets
to stand and step up, revive
the admonishing, denounciatory exhortations
of Jeremiah and like voices.
