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Benjamin Zephaniah

Benjamin Zephaniah

SOS (Save Our Sons)

We Black men of England
Too proud to cry for shame,
Let’s cry a sea
Cry publicly,
Expose our very pain,
For Babylon the bandit
Is on our sisters trail,
The bad talk
And the cool walk
Will not keep us out of jail.
 
We Black men of England
Our guns are killing us,
How dare we?
Now hear me
How great is dangerous?
There’s a fascist and a druggist
Out to get our kith and kin,
Let silent guns
Save our sons
The power is within.
 
We Black men of England
Excel as if in sport
For our people,
Because some people
Want to see our face in court,
When we Black men of England
Look the mirror in the face,
Through our sisters eyes
We men shall rise
As proud sons of our race.

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Bought and Sold

Smart big awards and prize money Is killing off black poetry It’s not censors or dictators that… The lure of meeting royalty And touching high society
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Talking Turkeys!

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Who's Who

I used to think nurses Were women, I used to think police Were men, I used to think poets
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Eat Your Words

I am a veggie table A table made of veg, There’s so much fruit upon me All living on the edge, Life is hard
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We Refugees

I come from a musical place Where they shoot me for my song And my brother has been tortured By my brother in my land. I come from a beautiful place
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Fair Play

Mirror mirror on the wall Could you please return our ball Our football went through your cra… You have two now Give one back.
Wot a Pair

I waz walking down Wyefront stree… When me trousers ran away, I waz feeling incomplete But still me trousers would not st… When I found where they had gone
What Stephen Lawrence Has Taught Us

We know who the killers are, We have watched them strut before… As proud as sick Mussolinis’, We have watched them strut before… Compassionless and arrogant,
White Comedy

I waz whitemailed By a white witch, Wid white magic An white lies, Branded by a white sheep
Touch

When I see you I know life was ma… When I see you I don’t wanna die When I don’t see you, I sleep and… It’s the truth I am telling you,… Sometime I think I cant survive w…
De Rong Song

Your house is Falling down Around Your Feet,
Everybody Is Doing It

In Hawaii they Hula They Tango in Argentina They Reggae in Jamaica And they Rumba down in Cuba, In Trinidad and Tobago
Ride

We first met on a golden night As the moon radiated love light On the dock of the bay. Somewhere between the real deal an… We lay unapologetically
The British

Take some Picts, Celts and Silur… And let them settle, Then overrun them with Roman conq… Remove the Romans after approxima… Add lots of Norman French to some
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Neighbours

I am the type you are supposed to… Black and foreign Big and dreadlocks An uneducated grass eater. I talk in tongues
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