What’s Your Body Count?

what’s your body count?

Zionists starved more Palestinians to death yesterday 

than the number of classmates i graduated with,

but Miss Lauryn Hill walked the Met Gala.

Two dozen more students 

had to “self deport” today,

but Doechii dropped a remix

to a Weekend song.

Traore defeated another attempt at revolution’s life,

Langley shot at his own feet

and didn’t miss,

but Shay Shay caught an accusation.

The fingertips of another cashew farmer

dissolved away today in Kenya,

but Booker performed a filibuster.

DHS f*cked your comrade up

in terminal C last week,

but the Sinners zioctaroon

was better discourse.

its not as simple as standing on one’s tippy toes

to get M’s lancets and insulin over the Blockade.

lotta people saying they stepped over Luigi-sized fences 

but the Cowboy Corporation tour just started,

we gotta make sure it breaks all the records 

and makes the big bucks for White Capital

otherwise we’d have to hear the genocide around us.

All Black children are ours.

Yesterday Rodney honored one of ours

with action compensatory emergency maximum,

but don’t SZA and Kendrick got great chemistry on stage?

Them pigs killed Tyre and got acquitted right in our faces,

another meth mouth got rich for calling a Black boy nigger, 

but we saw Sinners a third time last night

and Black Panther 2 is all my baby watches on her ipad

while we’re doing Radical Rest

because we do it for The Culture.  

Students brutalized bloody on video last Wednesday

for opposing a GEN-O-CIDE on-YOUR-DIME

but Nicki walked the Met Gala.

the theme was Black Dandyism 

and The Culture had a big Black night

for white teeth, white dollars, white eyes.

Another friend somewhere disappeared himself this month,

but it’s a diaspora war scheduled in a few hours. 

They purged all the HIV research databases,

stigma and unscience and unlogical and unreal rising,

sissies getting shotgunned off of sideways stares,

but Tory didn’t do it

Kelsey did and protect Meg

and I’m buying this new Nike collab

to show my support.

New airstrikes on the Yemeni people, 

and Palestinian people, and Lebanese people,

and Syrian people, and Pakistani people,

and Congolese people African people,

and Sudanese people African people,

and Somali people African people,

and Libyan people African people,

And Haitian people African people,

African people, African people, 

and Jabari Peoples, African people,

and Anthony Hill, African people,

and Breonna Taylor, African people,

but there’s a shiny new detail about Diddy’s case

that will spoil if left out too long

and TS Madison said what? 

another Cuban died at sea this morning

on a raft made of hand and heart 

running from the crisis to its creator,

but Lil Yachty got a chin implant. 

You and your cousins all pay in installments 

for a dozen eggs, diapers, or sweatshop garments,

a brother had to taxi to the ER after getting shot

and a sister gave birth in an Uber to the hospital

because both were cheaper than an ambulance,

but Jasmine said bad built butch body 

and then I bought the T-shirts

because that makes my dollar-circle-ate

or whatever.

Sister said we don’t believe our own analyses

as evidenced by what the hell we’re doing,

but look on this app at this cute video

of a wolf and a fox playing this morning

right here in my front yard

that the Security Camera captured.

Black men got at least 6 years

less life expectancy

than everyone else,

but can you get my photo?

a nation somewhere

has collapsed,

another is on the brink,

but what’s your body count?


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Musa is a cultural worker, community organizer, and independent researcher. They are a member of the Walter Rodney Foundation, and host of the Groundings podcast.