Birthday Love Poem for Hurriyah Asar (Ethna X) 75
Wow, men slow or what
1965 til’ 2020
can’t remember your b day September 2
Glad we talked September 1 2020
praise be Most High we talk
but want low down dirty truth?
too many Virgo lovers
Some virgo lovers same b day
confusion
Which way is up, Richard Pryor said!
Hurriyah lover like no other
sweet love
Yr 21 b day love
remember
hot fillmore
Page street love
young
full of cum
revolutionary love
black revolutionary nationalist love
fire bomb love
destroy america love
attack white/black lovers on bus
no respect black/white love
integration love dead
you march on Washington love
Me west coast Malcolm X black love
No MLK Jr
we shall overcome
Malcolm X black love
7, 000 students
UC Sproul Hall '64
black to bone
summer of love
black love lives summer love
haight street summer love
no love
Vietnam no love
Viet Cong no call me nigger love
hurriyah friend say come over
meet somebody
fbi nigga say
what you want
what you need
money
guns what
fbi nigga
fuck you bitch
leave house
Hurriyah
nigga slow or what
you slow too
confused east coast lover
married him
soon ran to me
Toronto, Canada
exiled
no vietnam
fuck vietnam
Viet Cong never call me nigger
met with Vietnam National Liberation Front in Toronto
brothers in liberation
adultery sweet
'cept money funny
can't pay pussy bill
oh well
rented room from Salome Bey (Sister singer Andy Bey)
Hurriyah soon gone
home to Chicago
no money no honey
can't pay pussy bill
get real
Hurriyah wrote from Chicago
Sent poet Don L. Lee book
Think Black
Hurriyah say
come to Chicago
Sun Ra taught
Don't follow a woman
but I did
underground to Detroit
then Chitown
hawk winter
after Canada fuck a hawk
After Ottawa and Montreal
fuck a hawk
Lake Michigan hawk ain't shit
said to self
"If all these Chicago niggas can deal with hawk
so can I
Cottage Grove hawk
Loop hawk
Northside hawk
57th Kimbark hawk
Blackstone Ranger turf hawk
Chicago Defender dead nigga daily hawk
rats big as cats hawk
love Chicago crew
Don L Lee
Gwen Brooks
Carolyn Rogers
Hoyt Fuller
Art Ensemble (Came to Black House, San Francisco, 1967)
Muhammad Speaks
Richard Durham
Herbert Muhammad
Jilted my love more than once
sick crazy me
my love juices sweeter than wine
drink love all night long
eat her love food
love juice pours from her body
you are what you eat
I eat her love twice daily
Cayenne hot
ginger sweet
Turmeric
healing love
mint rising in the night love
I am drunk on my love
addicted
niggas say sprung
my lover hates nigga word
but I Cali nigga
don't mean same as midwest, dirty south nigga
Hurriyah hate bitch most of all
but when kids out of control
she say bitch!
Fought co-wives over bitch
This my night bitch
12 midnight my time starts
Hurriyah’s love
Beyond kiss touch stroke
beyond honey bees in hives
No matter
Adultery, fornication
in exile
Polygamy too
back in Babylon USA
She had her lovers too
ain’t no thang
When king busy
queens too
Better ax somebody
named you freedom
Hurriyah
Free woman
Independent
Land owning woman
I came to your island land
Writing each day as tide came in
Interrupted by tasks you demanded
Clean chicken coop
Gather feed ducks
landing from North, South America
loved watching
You nurse sick baby chicks
mother back to life
Earth Mother working
Ethna X
African Market Woman Supreme
Bay Area loves you
Dominated Berkeley Flea Market
General Store Model copied by all
you long gone
GULLAHLAND
SOUTH CAROLINA
ROBERT SMALL LAND
YORUBA AFRICAN VILLAGE LAND
I write in peace
as tide comes in and out
heaven land
peace day night
no matter mosquitoes
no matter them "can't see" motherfuckers
Oh love Hurriyah
San Francisco Summer of Love
Weed lovers
LSD lovers
Black Nationalist
Black Arts West Theatre Fillmore Street lovers
South Carolina now
cherish memories
warriors gone and forgotten
Remember Eldridge Cleaver
Bunchy Carter
Ron Karenga
Emory
Amina and Amiri
Amina never forgets what you told woman at door of Black House when she said she was European and Native American.
Amina said you told her, "Native American can come in, the European got to go!"
Remember when I took Eldridge to meet Bobby Seale
to get him out of our hair
though he was paying Black House rent from
Soul on Ice advance royalties
then
Lil' Bobby Hutton came with message from Supreme Commander Huey
I told Lil' Bobby, "Fuck da Supreme Commander!"
Lil' Bobby said, "We go deal wit you dude!"
Panthers clicked automatic weapons outside our room all night long
remember
click click click
click click click
45 automatic
click click click
shotgun
click click click
click click click
we didn't give a fk
just like Panthers
we fearless crazy too
didn't give a fuck.
we survived
praise be to allah
Across from our room
Eldridge and BPP
plotted invasion of Sacramento
changed history
Negroes with Guns
Robert and Mabel Williams style
better ax somebody
In Gullahland
predators come for your fowl
Chickens ducks turkeys pigeons doves
Snakes wiggle coops
Coons fearless fight your dogs
your door open
coons march in
Devour dog food/chicken feed
door open
Rooster/ hen come inside
hen lay eggs on couch
Rooster guard door
pimp in da hood
you come to my room
Disturb me with love talk
attention
woman satisfaction
Seduce me
coy woman game
leave computer for your love
Eternal love
Not friend with perks
friend for life
When all lovers gone
Mine as well
may we call upon each other
for final kiss hug embrace.
Hapi b day
Queen of Black Arts and Liberation!
--Marvin X
9/1/20