Rap Ranting

for Siphiwe Ngwenya

calling all saints & souls bawling hymns 
& anthems of the slogan change 
it's deranged power to the cripple 
takes a ripple to make a storm 
in stones on bones nothing atones 
martyrs in the fire of the liar coward 
saying forward! yet staying on the outside 
of the rap-line
moving mouth first eating their feet 
fart hot taking a run before the gun 
it's the plight of spit 
in the fairy tale mouth of hell 
with lots of stories to scream shout yell 
nothing intelligent to tell

i'm rap-ranting

is the poem crown or thorn or crown of thorns
i was born without horns can't be a slave to the grave 
in necrophilial perception
got to have reception for beauty 
can't wait till i'm mister man the late 
to celebrate the bird the bee the tree 
in the imagery of poetry 
but the menagerie of bigotry 
racial harlotry in grey all round bullshit ... 
meanwhile the stench hits my nostrils with a smile 
& i'm moved to rude boy murderous style 
the same water runs from my eye when i cry 
falls from the sky & i feel pain 
when the rain strikes black in element attack 
biological/germ warfare on the atmosphere 
& savage the page
when i think in ink the mind shrinks away 
when i say the positive i venerate 
the negative can't emulate

i'm rap-ranting

watch them creep to get the rap asleep 
keep awake kicking tight poetic 
on the steel flash scream track 
don't snooze on the juice of defiance 
or pose on the noose of a camera flash-light 
'cos life flashing out won't make the news 
produce the contradiction in a move beyond hesitation 
underhand high position doctor-attends 
a malice-in-wonderland's constitution 
creation of a friend to fiend situation 
expose the superstition 
of the reptilian's repose 
under the leaderman-god stoned nose 
of senility's deification

i'm rap-ranting

introduce the meat on the site of the knife tip 
mass-produce/hook the worm 
now we've got to jump slave ship 
know the 7th wonder another god blunder 
need not row across the river of corpses 
in death-flow from rwanda 
in flight thru the television 
sight & foundsoundnoise of thunder 
to birth-blow burst the banks of an unconscious nation 
gone to putrefaction 
calling out for toilet paper rustle 
rhythms shit talk aesthetic become anaesthetic 
the economic/tic will stick suck the organic 
down to plastic/synthetic

i'm rap ranting

the soul was crash-randed to be sold 
dollar billed & pounded to a kill-hold 
until pain slashed thru to the vein of red-gold 
& from the future into the past 
the serpent crawls where the scrolls unfold 
the stories of fake glories told 
made up laid stock market floored out morgue-slab cold 
in intricate slime schemes written white on tar 
in rhyme-scars upon fallen stars 
wacky wretched existence on a rack slides 
to lackey-pretence & cooks the power goose 
understand when yr desert-storm loose 
as you dance-hall knock or lovers rock a hell-hock 
let nothing sterile cover the tongue's cock 
of the black star wet-nursing a baby lock 
soot to the foot we're kin-
dread-spirit striking thru rock 
to the root
on the steel-street-reality-line-walk

i'm rap ranting
out







Rant Notes From Here to Dela

( seed to weed need to greed portents to heed
signs unread lead to bleed
the sea is red the sea is dead the sea is a chill
dread bloodspill down mad-god-head-hill )

constipation bloated bodies occupation 
beyond prostitution open lips of constitution 
& human rights bill
the power-hall's fear blocked entrances 
(of) rule & control's vaginismus 
(where) power plays the ball of impotence 
down death-trench-razor-bladed-putrefied-pussy-passageways 
& deep-stench-decapitated-dick-head-ways 
all i lick is the WORD
wrenched out of soil to toil inside the money-python's coil 
dead heads towels for beastly bowels of blood-oil 
a line of semen & excrement runs from president to resident 
& deep in the hole & venom in ferment the serpent is unrepentant

seed to weed

lashes of state's articles 
smashed up testicles twisted up ovaries 
double-fisted calvaries avarice's inheritance 
kisses you give babies sugar-coated diseases 
flags human rags wave multi-coloured faeces 
economic cut-up in pieces 
i perform a script-tease 
your guns sing let the peace increase you rest in it 
a sure fire hit chorus my lungs sting in the heat 
see the fire-pain not cease the blood-rain ease 
until it cleanse the shitstains 
off the curtains on your brains 
a grue pyre to the new empire you raise

seed to weed

rodent's habitation in conversation 
bats fly out when you shake your head 
nod & rats fall off your beard 
leaven bread of heaven's dead 
the silence within sends violence outward 
suicide squad's BUST reward 
what's dead dumb is what's born with a holler 
lice under the all-flighty collar 
bodies roll are dice for the almighty dollar 
poison in your shit in the ground spoil turn the earth jelly 
sit on your feet take the land's last stand 
smelly on the whirly of pus-criminal discharges
seminal charges cannibal. surges animal urges pig-mental-purges

seed to weed