The ABC's they didn't teach you in grade school.
2003-06-10, 6:58 p.m.
My brother taught me my alphabet
when I was three years old
on a broken down, brown backporch in Arkansas...
A is for asshole,
B is for blacklisted
because D, daddy is a truckdriver
and momma works at EZ Mart...
A is for angry
because the U.S. of A. makes it
U, unacceptable to be on W.I.C.
in this rich man's democracy.
B is for the bullshit
I had to put up with in gradeschool -
the name-calling
the hair-pulling
the hand-me-down clothing.
C is for the commodity peanut butter sandwiches
that i threw in the dumpster
behind the cafeteria everyday
because momma was too proud for free lunches.
D is for the detention
that I got E, everyday for telling everyone to
F. U. C. K. OFF.
for calling me garage. sale. girl.
A is for the abomination of this
B, bullshit nation
in which little girls find elation
in stealing food from gas stations.
A is for the assinine state
of this fallic "democracy",
a presidency handed over to a babe in his infancy,
all due to some discrepancy
in the misplacement of residency
in FLORIDA.
FLA. FLA.
Ya know, FUCK FLORIDA.
Nobody lives there anyway...
Except granny and gramps,
tooling around in their Winnebago,
getting fat off of old Walt's cash...
'cept no one's getting fat 'cept Mama Cass...
Except she died like everyone else.
G is for greed.
H is for hunger.
And I...
I'm fucking sick and tired of having to wonder
when this whole fucking nation is going to go under
hiding behind the thunder of applause of George W's reelection.
Because that's what's going to happen...
Isn't it?
J is for finding justification
in "forgetting" to vote.
K is for the killing spree
that i'm going to have to go on
if you all just sit on your asses
and pay all of your taxes like good. little. Americans.
Americans.
Put us all under one name and we are all one and the same.
A is for American.
B is for Blind.
all being fed the same line of "white... is right."
having "red and yellow black and white, we are precious in his sight"
SHOVED down our fucking throats.
Precious in whose sight?
Your god's. Or mine?
A is for Allah.
B is for Buddah.
C is for Christ.
And as we all know,
Christ was a Jew...
but those pretty boy Nazis killed all of them too...
And what's a poor girl like me gotta DO
to get a break around here?
Everytime I get near the top,
someone raises the stakes...
And I'm up here...
Doing everything it fucking takes
to RELEARN *my* alphabet.
A is for activisim, antiracism, anarchy.
B is for building bridges and breaking down barriers.
C is for finding my *own* cultural identity.
And... I'm still working on the rest.
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