Still Giving Birth

The sixties spread its legs
and out popped the heads
of weed smoking
baby boomers
cradling rock and rolling in crack
with Hendrix in Woodstock or
rappers on B.E.T. pimpin' that age old slut
who, in a bloody
breach birth,
pulled the guts right
out of America
while giving birth
to Vietnam
and I'raq
and I ran
with the dead
but not the un~grateful
who marched on Alabama
with the
Reverend King and Kennedy,
and KK ok we never saw it lasting
cuz we're still not free
Negroes or Blacks to African
America is still pschedelicing out
of our minds, outta work and outta the sense
we need to ask why are
the sixties'
still giving
birth!


by Celeste Butler-Mendez
Copyright © October 4, 2006