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"We Are" (Grow)

by Panama Soweto

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Test track for DJ Cavem's "We are becuz they were" featuring Pep Love and Speech from Arrested Development

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A boy sold a cow
For magic beans
Plants a seed
Gives it sun
Cuts the weeds
He believes with God and time
It will feed
His family
Provide what they need
Digs his hands in the dirt til his fingers bleed
Said the God body Hemoglobin
Magic potient
Hard work and hoping
Prayers are half broken
But he knows Gods approaching
I Self Lord And Master
Food, Shelter, Clothing
Walmarts distorted
Whole Foods cant afford it
Principle or food on the table
Whats important?
Can you be Che Guevera in America?
Martha Stewart or Erykah
Calls from the creditors, letter to the editors
They shutting down our schools
Want us to build
And take away the tools
Changing all the rules
We used to produce
Now we consume
Fried Chickens home to roost
It go
Burger King / Mcdonald's
Malt Liquor bottles
Pork to Newports, Aunt Jemima role models
Triple bipass to transplants
Uncle Ben's cornered in a box
We never had a chance
But the boy plants gardens
Between the cracks
Between the cigarette filters
And broken glass
Between the hopelessness and the stats
Between what was lost and what we have
Between El Shabazz and Martin Luther Ave
We build what they destroy and rise from the ash...

V for Vendetta mask
The first shall be last
Let them fire tear gas
Our eyes been dry since the last elder passed
Meditation and the fast
Burn sage,on stage before syllables is had
My peoples built the pyramids on your cash
Tell pharaoh, let them go
Exodus, 11:4
Roger that
10:4
Behold
Tomorrow I return to collect whats owed

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released July 4, 2012

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Panama Soweto Denver, Colorado

Panama Soweto is a performance writer, emcee and educator. Literary bloggers have called his work, "transformative," and "inspiring." His work has been featured on NPR and The HuffingtonPost.com. Panama has performed with such artists as Gil-Scott Heron, Pulitzer Prize winner Yusef Komunyakaa, DJ Kool Herc, Zion I and The Grouch, Digable Planets, Dead Prez, Souls of Mischief and The Flobots. ... more

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