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Show Page 4 And you know, [t don’t matter in Zion TO BE | A POET ___ SIMPLY : MEANS ALIVE, AWAKE, AND Ye, they laid one of their death white lies on me. If you've got a history Told me my blackness. That's glorious in lore, [t’s their story, baby, was a fault. Fear told them that tale. that’s at this core. And you know, But that jives coming to a halt. ae They're in their own jail Without bail, pious people get awful mean When somethin’ different Cause Hamm’s in Zion is on their scene. And I’m here to bring EVERYTHING After all, somebody in in the light. A MESSAGE history put a torch to their thing Set them steppin’ Oh, | expect a fight With the hippo of the word, But all thats been, ain't and they weren’t half- Worth as_____. DIGGING 3 FROM ) HAMM TO THE PEOPLE OF ZION Ane ie Anau oe ey eles steppin’ neither. to the first blossom Claimed Zion for their own. Got right down to setting of freedom. To the end of the beast, things straight To the first real laying on of hands, Bamps in Z19H t Ye baby, right Anybody arriving late With pigment to their cn A of didn’t fitin. To the first real laying on of hands. Ye, the whole thing is gonna fnkn. hie comeuen Ca Tee, Anybody doing, believing an ything else the steeple To give the power Hunger on horseback Fell right under their torch of sin. to the people. Rides, baby, And you know, schools, industry, here under the Shadow of somebody's Rides with a church and state pack of poverty, a pistol and a Star. And you know, The church ts a -» feast for her own oe ae. re leit righting over the tossed bone. And you know, They got rules ae Beautiful people All married and obviously one, the bossman | control your fate All the beautiful people: [n this machine on the run. And you know this tribes spirit The peasants, the blacks, the unaware. mo Is a cancer with a e afraid af et GIS Boe A vulture springing out of the bosom of deciet. And you know their representatives to God People who rise with good earth as flowers rise to sunshine’s warmth. George Bennett ie people with noses lowered to smell good earth. ee the lies on Family Assistance NOT Welfare Existance sends. the table. Youre all heart Richard For his tribe But you can see the And ours is bleedin and for all other holes in their fable. Citizens Assistance OR tribes settling in Ye it’s sorry - the valley between The salt pool and the white laced mountains. But it’s together. NowI aint just mackin’ I’m fac-in And in the rules there’s a bomb in Zion, it’s always been Set to go The church and ee r at are And it aint no Black, Sa men. All the rest of us Hunger : The rats are hungry and they re knawing through plaster, In hopes of tasting more color: : . | Bain Red and brown and sometimes white as plaster. The rats are ceaseless as bulldozers, cracking walls, cracking bones; or any other people Nimble as trapeze artists, swinging a light cord, sliding a water pipe. gonna have to make it blow. You re God’s creature. The church gonna do it good. You ve come to visit those that God forgot? Is chillun; Ye, you'll see a sign custodial cases, on the rubble of their pyre with our hung “Condemmed for lack of out faces. brotherhood.” Militant Resistance. Marie Darling : George Bennett Apprenticeship Outreach Program Utah Building Trades IROYAL TIRE CENTER U.S. ROYAL TIRES COMPLETE On-the-Job Training TIRE SERVICE AND RECAPING DON MAYNE, Director - JOSEPH H. GETER, Co-director CORINE BRIDGEWATERS, tutor 2 locations 217 East 3rd South 516 South 2nd East 204 West Ist South 328-8795 486-2081 Selt Lake City, Utah Bus. Phones 322-2583 - 322.2564 st |
