Toys, Robert Fuentes larger version

gamab click the bedouin remix| LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs

light up di egrets plumage            

dey sky needles di record on dey turntable of epiphany proudfoot

blazin’ pele’s bass line  over runneth di clouds wit kravitz’s arrows

 

in di rain di blanc-mange seeps from dey dirt

in di mountains maestro spare a seed n sow in peyote stitch

 

ink loves dey ache         loves dey gamab magma

                       

                        listen sparrow hawk who holds the keys to the orient

 

cut n burrow yo’ former maverick

waist beads don’t conjure ambrosia                    

down by di lakeshore we pray fo oxala's rain                                

 

garuda’s buzz kill brain freeze     der goes alfalfa wit a dark n lovely

der behest his unibomber’s sound clash straddlin’ vishnu’s skillet¹

 

a chicken   a waffle   a blizza of day lilies

 

streams of bittersweet synth blarney

 

swing low my nephrite pendulum

shake a birdlime from di crow’s tales

i see yo’ hair bucklin’ dem bongo naps

 

i got a mouth of yo’ pink tutus  undulatin’  funky worms²

 

wee wee      strum madame      blackamoors

we were      a        very       good nigger³

 

there still remains one sea to cross

 

wee wee     strum madame      blackamoors

we accept              we accept it all

 

a moonful  a  spoonful  a suga tit

let dey high hat make water from yo’ hang glider

dis name  jigga boo velveteen fraggle rock agogo funk

 

di wind spit at your ravens

make nickels tickle mandingo saviors

 

 

no appropriatin’ of  tongues jigga jigga   HOO   true    you knew ja rule

 

my lilaquoi just gotta love lenny again     dat’s all

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¹Two D.C. Go-Go songs by the Backyard Band

²70’s funk soul band Ohio Players.

³The following lines in italics come from Aimé Césaire’s Notes of a Return to my Native Land.