Ballad of St. Lazzar
this is how you teach us to live:
drinking from the pump by St. Francis & Joseph,
picking mango and seagrapes on Poitier Ave,
washing weself in the old gully in the bush…
Category: Ide Thompson
God Save Duh Queen
Ide AMARI Thompson Down home Down home This mussie a jokeBui, this een No ant’emTo duh majestyof dese islands. This is enn no slave song No cry to our freedomAn’ like the las’ Mailbot rushing...
Reclamation by Water
I climbed onto land, wringing my brackish hair
dry, like I was squeezing sour over fish
gasping for air. The refuse: splintered
wood, shattered concrete, twisted trees.
Da First Fruit of Our Sperit
Ide Thompson In Our Caribbean —————————–Christianity Is another name —–for —————————–Death....
