ALD provides a collective opportunity to recommit ourselves to political
education, organizing, and sober analysis as our material conditions rapidly
deteriorate and the need for a viable alternative becomes more urgent.
— Read on www.charisseburdenstelly.com/blog/2-african-liberation-day

Hood Communist seeks to clarify the confusion that exists about neo-colonialism because unless we can rid ourselves of it, it will drown us. 
— Read on hoodcommunist.org/2022/05/26/african-liberation-day-2022-smash-neo-colonialism/amp/

if you love me
don’t say anything 
if you hate me
speak up
i can take it

they called me 
mute because 
of love

(this is a collaborative poem)
(between A + M) 

i rolled a joint for you 
but got so high
that i forgot to light it 
next time try 
being less lovely

i am so excited 
to party with you
take my hand
dance la danza muerte
i love you
and i don’t want this nite to end

i am a force
a pleasure 
i am a song
a rhythm 
African + European 
I am a story
fickle curls
giggling in the wind
i am a force
   Ready
for what may come
to give what needs giving
for life 

Various institutions engaged in a cultural war to neutralize Black musicians who had the potential to be political leaders.
— Read on hoodcommunist.org/2022/05/19/war-against-black-musicians/amp/

can’t describe the thing you do to me
how can i transcribe bee sting?
the rings the buzzes of birds bees
trees talk to me 
it’s a shock to me 
chip off the block
you see i been lovin you 
from light-years
been knowing you
for night-years
screws tighten on us / sight tears
pressure-boil as fascists oil
submachineguns
tragic-to think leisure will foil plots
magic - masses moving mountains 

i was never really like this
could never really recite this
odes were biting
undelighting
i was spiting everything in front of me
black windows green eyes
hazel blood inviting
alien tears / tracks
meadows where marigolds marinated 
in mercurium, oh my!
i was never really like this
       /ines of /inen
etched!stretched!across