{"id":487,"date":"2010-01-19T11:25:46","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T11:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/nucleus-import\/?p=487"},"modified":"2010-01-19T11:25:46","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T11:25:46","slug":"june-jordan-in-memoriam-martin-luther-king-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/june-jordan-in-memoriam-martin-luther-king-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"June Jordan\/In Memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"rightbox\"><img src='https:\/\/mahmag.org\/nucleus-import\/media\/7\/20100119-june_jordan.jpg' width='146' height='183' alt='June Jordan' \/><\/div>\n<p>\nThey sleep who know a regulated place<br \/>\nor pulse or tide or changing sky<br \/>\naccording to some universal   <br \/>\nstage direction obvious   <br \/>\nlike shorewashed shells<!--more-->&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br \/>\nJune Millicent Jordan (July 9, 1936 &#8211; June 14, 2002) was a Caribbean American poet, novelist, journalist, biographer, dramatist, teacher, and committed activist.  She became a passionate voice of a generation battling the constructions of race, gender, sexuality, politics, war, violence, and human rights. Jordan played an important role in the development of black artistic, social, and politic movements and is still widely regarded as one of the most significant and prolific Black, bisexual writers of the twentieth century.  She published numerous volumes of poetry during her lifetime while winning various awards and appearing in several poetry anthologies.  She passed away of breast cancer in Berkeley, CA in 2002.  <\/p>\n<p>Quote: &#8220;We are the ones we have been waiting for.&#8221; &#8211; June Jordan<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>\n<b>In Memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>by June Jordan<\/p>\n<p>I<\/p>\n<p>honey people murder mercy U.S.A.   <br \/>\nthe milkland turn to monsters teach   <br \/>\nto kill to violate pull down destroy   <br \/>\nthe weakly freedom growing fruit   <br \/>\nfrom being born<\/p>\n<p>America<\/p>\n<p>tomorrow yesterday rip rape   <br \/>\nexacerbate despoil disfigure   <br \/>\ncrazy running threat the   <br \/>\ndeadly thrall<br \/>\nappall belief dispel<br \/>\nthe wildlife burn the breast   <br \/>\nthe onward tongue<br \/>\nthe outward hand<br \/>\ndeform the normal rainy   <br \/>\nriot sunshine shelter wreck<br \/>\nof darkness derogate<br \/>\ndelimit blank<br \/>\nexplode deprive<br \/>\nassassinate and batten up<br \/>\nlike bullets fatten up<br \/>\nthe raving greed<br \/>\nreactivate a springtime<br \/>\nterrorizing<\/p>\n<p>death by men by more<br \/>\nthan you or I can<\/p>\n<p>STOP<\/p>\n<p>\n       II<\/p>\n<p>They sleep who know a regulated place<br \/>\nor pulse or tide or changing sky<br \/>\naccording to some universal   <br \/>\nstage direction obvious   <br \/>\nlike shorewashed shells<\/p>\n<p>we share an afternoon of mourning   <br \/>\nin between no next predictable<br \/>\nexcept for wild reversal hearse rehearsal   <br \/>\nbleach the blacklong lunging<br \/>\nritual of fright insanity and more<br \/>\ndeplorable abortion<br \/>\nmore and<br \/>\nmore<\/p>\n<p><i>June Jordan, \u201cIn Memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr.\u201d from Directed By Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan (Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2005). Copyright \u00a9 2005 by The June M. Jordan Literary Trust.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They sleep who know a regulated place or pulse or tide or changing sky according to some universal stage direction obvious like shorewashed shells<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":548,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/548"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}