Baudelaire lost his hair in the rap-dragon’s lair
Ginsberg howled on the wagon running wild on jazz music
organic nothing plastic from the classics to the beatniks
oral poetics in the mix          colonial tactics fake the facts
I take it back… a reappropriation act
‘cos granny thought Shakespeare a star player of soccer
but granny shocker lyrical clocker
dear oh dear she was a wild rhythm and rhyme rocker

I ride the mental colt break unfo-vault
for self-rank pump system shock in kilovolt
jump bolt nut & lock on intellect bank
not verbal gymnast when I flip tongue it’s toil
twist the WORD around dead in the ground snakes recoil
‘cos I carry the sound of soil         now check it

©2003, Lesogo Rampolokeng

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