New Day Jazz

Justin Desmangles

How will it go, crumbling earthquake, towering inferno, juggernaut, volcano, smashup,
in reality, other than the feverish nearreal fantasy of the capitalist flunky film hacks

tho they sense its reality breathing a quake inferno scar on their throat even snorts of
100% pure cocaine cant cancel the cold cut of impending death to this society. On all the
screens of america, the joint blows up every hour and a half for two dollars an fifty cents.
They have taken the niggers out to lunch, for a minute, made us partners nigger Charlie) or
surrogates (boss nigger) for their horror. But just as superafrikan mobutu cannot leop
    ardskinhat his
way out of responsibility for lumumba’s death, nor even with his incredible billions
    rockefeller
cannot even save his pale ho’s titties in the crushing weight of   
things as they really are.
How will it go, does it reach you, getting up, sitting on the side   
of the bed, getting ready to go to work.   Hypnotized by the ma-
chine, and the cement floor, the jungle treachery of
    trying
to survive with no money in a money world, of making the boss   
100,000 for every 200
    dollars
you get, and then having his brother get you for the rent, and if
you want to buy the car
    you
helped build, your downpayment paid for it, the rest goes to buy   
his old lady a foam
    rubber
rhinestone set of boobies for special occasions when kissinger   
drunkenly fumbles with her blouse, forgetting himself.
If you don’t like it, what you gonna do about it. That was the   
question we asked each
    other, &
still right regularly need to ask. You don't like it? Whatcha   
gonna do, about it??
The real terror of nature is humanity enraged, the true   
technicolor spectacle that
   hollywood
cant record. They cant even show you how you look when you   
go to work, or when you
    come back.
They cant even show you thinking or demanding the new so-
cialist reality, its the ultimate
    tidal
wave. When all over the planet, men and women, with heat in   
their hands, demand that
    society
be planned to include the lives and self determination of all the   
people ever to live. That is the scalding scenario with a cast of   
just under two billion that they dare not even whisper. Its called,   
“We Want It All . . . The Whole World!”


Amiri Baraka, “A New Reality Is Better Than a New Movie!”
from Transbluesency: The Selected Poems of Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones, 1961-1995
 Copyright © 1995 by Amiri Baraka.

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James Baldwin excerpt from The Struggle The Struggle Buddha
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