mimi dances with me

mimi dances with me
            and we swiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing
hand in hand centrifugal 
            splish splash hey where
r u?                 text me back
dnt want u to be sad
              u die or cry or laff
in these days buzz 
             with possibility 
with inevitability
             hey miss u
i miss u too
             your voice
yeah?
          is what keeps me
keep smirking 
         your face 
keep smiling
          better now we know 
oh? 
          yeah
okay
         okay yeah like
no I can’t get into it-
         yeah, okay
okay sure 
         ok

Fanmi Lavalas Press Release October 12, 2022

[unofficial translation by Haiti Action Committee]

Haiti is going through one of the most difficult periods in its history. But this grave situation has begun long before today. The country, specifically the majority population, the main victim, has been suffering greatly as a result of one coup d’etat after another, meddling by the International community, corruption, impunity and a government that is in the service of the economic mafia.

We must remember that since the kidnapping/coup d’etat of February 29, 2004, the occupation of the country has caused more corruption, more massacres in the popular/working-class neighborhoods, more impunity, more hunger, more misery, more actors in the economic sector who have allied themselves with gangs that are increasing the digging of graves daily. Many billions of dollars were spent for the occupation, and for what? The situation has continued to worsen, as we all can attest. This calamity is the result of the 2004 coup.

While the cholera epidemic has re-surfaced to kill more people, prisoners are dying of disease, starvation and mistreatment day and night. When it comes to the excessive cost of gasoline, it has fallen upon us like a deadly bomb. 

If we do not overturn this cauldron of misery, there will be no better life for Haiti. The solution for Haiti is in the hands of Haitians. The mobilization against the system of corruption must not stop. All of us who are opposed to a foreign military intervention, let us put the well-being of our Country before any ambition for political power or any ambition for economic power.
All of those honest forces who represent the economic and political strength of our country, the time has come for us to sit down with respect for each other.

Yes, the time has come to find together how we will stop the machine of insecurity that is spreading death everywhere in the country. Yes, it is not too late!  The future of Haiti is in our own hands, Haitian People.Together, let us safeguard our dignity.

Alone we are weak, Together we are strong, All Together, WE ARE LAVALAS 

Executive Committee of Fanmi LavalasDr. Maryse Narcisse
M. Joël Edouard Vorbe
Dr. Jean Myrto Julien
Agr. Anthony Dessources

Amerika Eats Its Young

dedicated to all the funkers. fake the funk, and your nose will grow. 

"a luscious bitch she is , true"
"but it's not nice to fool mother nature"

on the city streets 
we see the daily toil
blend into the mush
the crowd and try 
try to forget we die
every minute in this story

"in her neurotic attempt 
"to be queen of the universe"

what is this drive toward domination
everything in our culture is about control
who to fuck who to love where to live
it's all these strings that tug 
and even when we fight it 
the conditioning is so deep 
we fall into wells we didn't know existed
become puppets who can't see whose hand to bite
under spells cast from
 international monetary funds
 world banks 
 loans, aid
 a trap a trap! 
you must think and do like the Westerner 
john wayne lives in our skulls 
shooting down the reds and the blacks 
and the greens 

"oh, if and when the laws of man"
"is not just, equal and fair"
"then the laws of nature will come and do her thing"

even empires have upper limits
they all fall for similar reasons
groaning under their own weight 
as they take and take and take 

now the earth is screaming
telling us to stop burning 
yearning for us
to become her lover once again
and some measure of balance 

"balance is my thing"
"the sun the snow, wind and rain"
"must come"

take stock even out
STOP
BRAKE
we need a new attitude
totally granola and see 
each other as equal with the earth
and not above her 

"we're just a biological speculation"
"sittin' here, vibratin'"
"and we don't know what we're vibratin' about"
"and the animal instinct in me"
"makes me wanna defend me"
"it makes me want to live when it's time to die"

do you see the point?