Wise I
WHYS (Nobody
Knows
The Trouble I Seen)
Traditional
If you ever
find
yourself, some where
lost and surrounded
by enemies
who won't
let you
speak in your own language
who destroy your statues
&
instruments, who ban
your omm bomm ba boom
then you are in trouble
deep
trouble
they ban your
own boom ba boom
you in deep
deep
trouble
humph!
probably take you several hundred
years
to get
out!
by Amiri Baraka
from Modern American Poets