Who Will Survive America

Who will survive in America? Few Americans Very few Negroes No crackers at all Will you survive in America With your 20 cent habit? Yo, 4-bag Jones, will you Survive in the heat and fire Of actual change? I doubt it Will you survive, woman? Or will your nylon wig Catch afire at midnight and light up Stirling Street And your assprints on the pavement. Grease melting in this Brother's eyes, his profile shot up by a Simba thinking Coming around the corner was really Tony Curtis A misguided brother, got his mind hanging out with Italians The black future will You can't with the fat stomach between your ears Scraping nickels out the inside of nigger daydreams Very few Negroes... maybe no Red Negroes at all The stiffbacked chalklady baptist, in blue lace If she shrinks from blackness in front of the church Following the wedding of the yellow robots Will not survive. She is old anyway, and they're moving Her church in the wind First Negroes to be invisible to Truth, 1944, Minnesota? No Nothing of that will be anywhere It will be burned clean It might sink and steam up the sea. America might And no Americans, very few Negroes, will get out But the black man will survive America His survival will mean the death of America Survive Blackman! Survive Blackman! Survive Blackman! (Black woman too) Let us all survive, who need to OK? And we wish each other luck!