It’s Not a Just Situation: // Thursday, October 4, 2012
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10:20 PM
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It’s Not a Just Situation:
Though We Just Can’t Keep Crying About It (For the Hip Hop Nation That Brings Us Such Exciting Art) Nikki Giovanni (1943- )
You don’t
Just wake up and brush your teeth and make up your bed And put on your favorite pair of blue jeans
You don’t
On other evenings Just sneak away from your sleeping lover Just to grab a bite of Quik Stop Just to stop a train You don’t Just visit the 24 hour superstore Just to get a few cans of spray paint And Just happen to have a case to put them in
You are not
Just out of yellow So you’ll Just shadow with grey this time And Just shy of metallic blue you will Just fill in with electric orange
You are not
Just bored Or hungry or silly or Just crying for attention
You are
Just, if there is a Just Trying to be an artist You are Just If there is any Justice Trying to find a way of not Just surviving but living… You are just Trying to show the beautiful soul of your people You are just Trying to say “I’m alive” You are just Determined to be more Than what the powers who Just hate the idea of you want you to be
You are just
Trying to discover the route Of the neo underground railroad So that your kids can Just be free
You are just
Being a man You are just realizing Your womanhood
You are just singing and smiling
Because you Just don’t want to cry anymore
You are just
Falling in love Because hatred is too hard to bear
You are just
Determined To be the very best you and You just guess You better not let anyone take that away
You are just
A person With a big heart and wonderful talent That you just Think should be shared
Put a button on it
People
‘cause suspenders
Just won’t do. |
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