Dee Allen/BLACK MASQUE

BLACK MASQUE
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Slip into black clothes
And most importantly, your masque
Before you lies
A most daunting task

Wars for conquest
Bioengineered crops
Spreading global Capitalism—–
Here’s where it stops

The streets are coloured
In a surge of black
On palaces of the rich
You wage the attack

Banks, shops, skyscrapers
All symbols of wealth
Generators of revenue
Attributes to this system’s health

Smashed under the weight
Of rocks, kicks & blows
Whatever it takes to leave
Capitalism in death throes

The state responds—–
Armoured police advance
To guard ruling class interests—–
On with the swift violent dance

Another battle in the avenues
Another steel fence torn
Amidst the gas & debris,
Another victory will be born

Because without you,
Social movements wouldn’t persist
Without you,
There’d be no courage to resist.
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W: 6.12.07
[ For Danielle B. a.k.a. Sick Girl. ]*

Dee Allen.
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African-Italian poetry writer/Spoken Word performer based in San Francisco.

Allen has been doing creative writing since childhood, but it wasn’t until his early twenties that he decided to get serious with it. For two decades, Allen has performed his original writtenwork live and is now a member of Poor Magazine’s Po’ Poets Project and the Revolutionary Poets Brigade. Similarly, Allen’s work has appeared in numerous underground ‘zines, newsletters, newspapers and webzines since the early 1990s, from Flipside to Haight Ashbury Literary Journal to The San Francisco Bay View. Allen’s work now appears in the anthology books “Revolutionary Poets Brigade: Volume 1” [ published by Caza de Poesia ], “Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts: Volume 2, Number 1” [ published by Spoken Word show promoter/writer Daniel Yaryan ], “Living In The Land of The Dead: Volume 4” [ published by Faithful Fools Street Ministry ] and his own first book “Boneyard” [ now available from Poor Press ].