If you aren’t having no fun, die, because you’re running a worthless program, far as I’m concerned.”- Gil Scott Heron
Factory Nigger
They never could
understood
Or maybe never tried
Called you a junkie and a genius
You opened my world through the Vulture and The Nigger Factory
A black man standing in the fields
Unafraid
Struck out on his own
Without apology
Without validation
Fuck 'em for painting you as a novelty
As an enigma
And nothing more
How painful your world must have been
To be a survivor of the revolution
Waiting in the other world for us to turn our televisions off...
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