Study

They won't give you ear plugs
for the disabling and deafening screams
of the human test subject,
dissected in fascist laboratories.

You won't receive a syllabus
detailing the findings of these inhuman experiments
based on "scientific evidence"
because there is none to share.

Instead, you will take an examination
with results of failure, ineptitude, and depravity
to determine more un-natural facts
about your irregular dispositions.

When you graduate,
the cracker barrel scholarship is irrelevant—
as the revolutionary mind is fed
with universal knowledge of dignity and self-determination.

As you transition into the post,
the pedagogy of pillagers is removed
data bit by data bit
with constant consciousness and resistance.

Fast

It was the elongated arms,
laborious disposition,
commitment to the whole
body of the African,
enticing the european hunger
for centuries of production:
creations of love
nurtured lands
evolutionary stability
inspired containers
concentrations of the Big Bountiful Blackness
yet to be fully constrained
alive in the Ebony Blood
Coco Fibers
and our Buttressed Bottoms

Fight

He's back he's back!! 
Our brother is back!!
Resurrected in the Attica walls!!
You can feel his blood under our toes!!

He's back he's back!!
Our brother is alive and well!!
He's right there next to you!!
And he's over there by your side!!

He's back he's back!!
Returned to us in full spirit!!
Listen to his demands!!
He is screaming:
DESTROY THE MORGUE THAT FAILED TO CONTAIN MY SOUL!!

Nova Oshun Shakur (they/them) is a Pan-Africanist, communist, writer, photographer, and artist from Houston. Their passion is in understanding and building community systems and infrastructure, especially systems that might serve as alternatives to those provided by federal, state, and local governments. As a writer and photographer, they are largely inspired by revolutionary political theorists and anti-imperialist artists whose work redefines humanity outside of the confines of white supremacy-capitalism-patriarchy (i.e. Assata Shakur, Walter Rodney, Ghassan Kanafani, Jean-Michael Basquiat, Noname, etc). You can follow them @111nova