Why Is Education Critical? Poem by Cherokee Akan Ewe

Why Is Education Critical?



because the youth
can only go so far after they out that womb righ?
and i noticed when raising my people babies too with them
they stuck to me closer
cause i was teaching them magnetically
as i Sunned out
rotating
doing my duty like any in the Rite Passage should
like i feed em everything gain
sow they can gain greater than me
changing da gains quicker
flipping
and enriching
dipping into da hoods
coming back with more than one
lectures tah dey brain
killing all oppressors indefinitely
blocking all haters out
and they be bustas and cowards...
we do drive-byes without da bullets now....

Sunday, August 26, 2018
Topic(s) of this poem: realistic
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
roll down your windows we bout at the spot and their dey go. Ova der Ancestor? Yeah turn dem lights off. Concoct. Get your pen or pencil out to write down that address for da auctions and dem sneaktip abandoned grabs, another sketch the improvements, another pen a komplet story for da m eye sea...hurry up and dump em before the colored criminals and dem racist crackers and dem prejudice neo-colonists and dem corrupt referees see us creeping on em sleeping. Yeah Ancestor they flatlines be on the sheet permanently like you said they would forever Ancestor (echoing)errrr! ! (echoing)
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