To Brother Chidi Opara ( why now, missing in action?
Cornelius Hamelberg
“late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers”
Longfellow tells us in A Psalm of Life
“Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time;”
Where is the magnanimous Chidi
when I need him ?
I have this piece
of news for him
so that he can carry on
along the same trajectory
that he started with comrade
this piece of news: New Zimbabwe leader
So, where do we go from here?
The choice is yours:
Heaven or the other place?
You see, what has been before,
is what shall be tomorrow and
That is what the Holy Bible’s
most wisest King Shlomo
meant by “ Nothing is New
Today. right now,
it’s neither
(Julian Cope)
nor is it
( Allen Ginsberg)
This anti-poem is what
The Last Poets must have
been prophetically rapping
about; in Be Bop or Be Dead
Umar Bin Hassan exasperated:
Also definitely madness,
neither appointed nor inspired by GOD
Jeffrey Epstein’s buddy Donald J.Trump
the wannabe Emperor of the United States,
Canada, Greenland & the Panama Canal
is dreaming of bombing Iran during this Holy Month of Ramadan
What's happening is possibly a prefiguration of the kinds of “things” that the end times beast is going to do
According to Jeffrew Sachs, this American warmonger
Nobel Peace Prize aspirant wants to go ahead in his life
before death sphere of things done that cannot be un-done,
thereby kissing goodbye to his presidency and his good name -
forever.
This 21st century zest is surely a matter of
“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread
Both of their futures, so full of dread, you don't show one”
Right now, over there in Nigeria it’s not Guarachi Guaro or Wachiwara either,
it’s Lakurawa “ the dreaded Lakurawa group” and the fact is that they must be feeling powerful because they are dreaded - just as Donaldo and his foreign minister Marco Rubio also want to be dreaded so that still unrestrained and unchained by the Supreme Court, still wanting to drain the swamp in Washington DC the wannabe Emperor can feel powerful, like Don Corleone some mafioso bozo, the USA’s Goliath with the alleged “most powerful military in the history of the universe”, threatening the Mullahs in Iran “ I give you till noon to go on your way to survival”