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poet of da soil – A 4TH WORLD INNA BABYLON

Posted on 14/12/2024 by muntjac

This peice was featured in Issue 1 of Muntjac Magazine

 

4TH WORLD – “Subpopulations existing in a First World country, but with the living standards of those in a third world, or developing country.” – read An introduction to the 4th World by MerriCatherine and Kiksuya Khola

 

(make maps out of tha ashes – tha ancestors guide us)

 

 

 

i can tell u what we remember:

a friend recounting how they watched riots on the news at 10 years old

asked their mum if they could go

they had a lot to be angry about

and we have a lot to be angry about

mark duggan made london, liverpool, nottingham, bristol and gloucester burn

niggas who brought babylon 2 its knees

and they remember

and they’re afraid

its why no matter what u vote these parties all hate immigrants

its why you’ll see TSG vans at every rally

and citizenship don’t mean anything when they can remove it

the easiest way 2 find out if you’re british is tha colour of your skin

 

 

 

babylon law codifies white civility in stone

and whoever diverges knows how cruel a state can be

council estates turned penitentiaries

mosques declared training grounds for jihadists

but when it comes 2 terror

what is terror if not august race riots and bibby stockholm

if not PREVENT harassing children

And 1 in 5 BLK mothers dying

And BLK kids are 4x more likely 2 be sexually assaulted strip searched

because NHS and Met Police aint 2 different from EDL

white supremacy coats every breath we take on dis island

 

 

 

but think back

think back

think back

2011 – 1985 – 2001 – 1981

every flame is purifying

1976 carnivals they made pigs scatta by chanting soweto

time 2 make pigs scatta by chanting harehills and moss side

by chanting brixton and barking

chanting peckham and palestine

tower hamlets and haiti

croydon and congo

postcolonial peoples

chanting world black revolution

and fourth world uprising

 

 

 

fourth world(?)

third world oppressions as a first world problem

every european country with a black underclass

babylon and that muslim underclass

Tha kweer niggas that know refuge in the crevices of the third world/swimming around tha murky banks of britan

those living and breathing in peripheries of tha belly

tha estates that be

concentration camp/holy ground/slave revolt ground zero all in one

every school in the ends a pipeline 2 prison

tha ppl called terrorist or criminal

we be fourth world – tryna end tha first world

trapped inside internal colonies

while our motherlands celebrate independence(?) days

postcolonial peoples who reject white saviours

the only gods we know are our hands

solidarity is awkward but tha yutes know it best

we be tha ones that makes devils scatta be it 2011 or 2024

tha real anti-fascists – tha trotskyists could neva

we be fourth world – tryna end tha first world

the only one we know

 

poet of da soil is a Black queer muslim poet and abolitionist, you can read more of their writings at substack.com/@poetwav

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