Denmark Vesey: Langston Hughes vs Denmark Vesey

Friday, July 03, 2009

Langston Hughes vs Denmark Vesey

Langston Hughes

Democracy will not come
Today, this year
Nor ever
Through compromise and fear.

I have as much right
As the other fellow has
To stand
On my two feet
And own the land.

I tire so of hearing people say,
Let things take their course.
Tomorrow is another day.
I do not need my freedom when I'm dead.
I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.

Freedom
Is a strong seed
Planted
In a great need.

I live here, too.
I want freedom
Just as you.

Denmark Vesey

Democracy comes,
then what?

Plantation occupants
run by tyrants
need exit.

Not puppets,
but poets and prophets
hustlers and soldiers
and profit

husbands not faggots
wives not harlots
thinkers not parrots
equity not debt

Freedom is no request
Freedom you go get
Freedom is no cancer in the gut
no police for the thoughts

Freedom requires hatchets
and 9mm ratchets

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: husbands not faggots wives not harlots thinkers not parrots
equity not debt

Who you calling faggots Plato?

“I've rejected the normalization of the abnormal. I don't object to anal sex between men.”

Is a faggot a man who has anal sex with another man, which you don’t object to?; Jul 3, 2009, 7:47:00 PM
Denmark Vesey said...: Nah, a faggot is a man who continually posts as Anonymous.; Jul 3, 2009, 9:32:00 PM

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