a big problem (for Oscar Lopez Rivera and 35 Women)

a big problem

( for Oscar Lopez Rivera and 35 Mujeres*)

by ‘bro. zayid’

they don’t have a problem with english

they have a problem with colonialism…

they don’t have a problem with poverty

they have a problem with colonialism…

they don’t have with malnutrition

they have a problem with colonialism…

they don’t have a problem with ‘trust’

a trust that left women sterilized

and their freedom fighters radiated

they have a problem with colonialism…

they don’t have a problem with crime

pitting themselves against each other

they have a problem with colonialism…

they don’t have a problem with authority

an authority that uses

the sensuous belly of their beautiful island

for an exploding laboratory of mad military science

they have a problem with colonialism…

they don’t have a problem

with confusing terrorists for patriots and heroes

they have a problem with colonialism…

they don’t have a problem

with not letting go of their Indigenous past

and those loud Afrikan drums

they have a problem with colonialism…

they don’t have a problem

accepting a strong police presence and the fbi

the same fbi that hunted down

Filiberto Rios like a dog in his 70s

they have a problem with colonialism…

they don’t have a problem with

appreciating the marvel and technological advance

of yr major corporations and capitalism

they have a problem with how all that comes together

with the police the fbi and the bombs

and leaves them poor malnourished illiterate and angry

they have a problem with colonialism…

they don’t have a problem

with the yankees or even with the mets

they a problem with ‘Yankee Imperialism’

because that

is ‘their’ colonialism…

so no

they don’t have a problem

with english or with their accents

they have a problem with colonialism

that steelbooted bloody foot

of colonialism

that landgutting cold of colonialism

that skullcracking authority of colonialism

that dogbarking bite of colonialism…

they have a problem

a big problem

a problem with colonialism…

*on the last Sunday of every month 35 women (Spanish: mujeres)

held rallies in Times Square NYC for each of Oscar Lopez Rivera’s 35 years in prison!...

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