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lyrics

I’m no honkie Rapper;
I don’t choose to roll
on someone else’s holy ground.
And let’s make it a statement of fact
that
“Black Lives Matter”
but I can’t rap-it-to-yer
because no one gets me to chatter
using the rhythm of someone else’s sound.

I swear I do not
want Westminster’s keys to the tunnel of love.
Affairs of their trial of bile are never quite enough.
There, written on a blackboard in white chalk,
is the name of the racist eunuch who was found
drowned in his own Rivers Of Blood.

“In Bristol
there’s a statue
of Ram Mahan Roy.
A photographic opportunity
to enjoy
capturing yourself with
a contemporary celebrity
who gave up the ghost in 1833.
Who is he?
He is the:
Scholar of the Spirit,
of the Spirit of the Age of Empire & Trade,
of The Raj & The Slave.
Victoria & Wilberforce
plant a road to Partition
but-Roy, but-Roy, but-Roy
abolishes sati.
What is sati?
Sati was:
The ritual act of suicide;
a Hindu woman burnt alive
in the fire
of her husband’s funeral pyre.”

Ram Mahan Roy is buried in Arnos Vale cemetery.
There’s no sabre rattling to the memory of RMR.
Grass and weeds, only grass and weeds.

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from Pairing, released January 2, 2020

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