Throw me somethin’ Mista
Throw me my satisfaction in my step
Throw me my ancestors right here, so we will Cha Wa & chat
’bout them, then & now
Throw me my Motha Mista, alive nicely earlier than age fifty
dancin’ complete
Doin’ dishes & making an attempt to sing the Christmas tune like
Nat King Cole Chestnuts roasting on an open hearth…
Throw me into a very good Penny Celebration within the yard
Mista when
Chunks of watermelon on a stick chilly makes me
Overlook it was ninety-eight levels within the shade
Throw me a tomorrow of equal humanity working
Collectively for a greater life, a
Higher planet, a greater reality
Throw me into house Mista, the
Galaxy glowing glad on God’s love
Picturing a peaceable earth from my left eye view
Throw me a penal system eclipsed of revenue &
Selling “rehabilitation” on the expense of voting rights,
Mista
Throw me a brand new Structure that eliminates the
Electoral Faculty now, whose want is
Outdated by expertise; they don’t vote with the folks!
Throw me an actual “for-true”
American Democracy
The place the folks’s vote counts
MonaLisa Saloy, a local of New Orleans’ seventh Ward, served because the 2021-23 poet laureate of Louisiana. She is the Conrad N. Hilton Endowed Professor of English at Dillard College. This poem was printed within the Saloy’s assortment of poems, Black Creole Chronicles(College of New Orleans Press, 2023) and reprinted right here with permission.
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