Hopes And Dreams

Kemet Mawakana

09 Jul 2008

HOPES
AND DREAMS

by Kemet Mawakana, a.k.a. the Seven Foot Poet

To hear this original work performed by the Seven Foot Poet, click the flash player below

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Congratulations
on the birth of your new baby!

We
know you have many hopes and dreams for your new child

.
. . and that’s great!

You
want your child to be a doctor or a lawyer

An
entrepreneur mayor president pro-athlete or movie star

Or
maybe an astronaut computer engineer

microbiologist
artist or geneticists

Or
perhaps a researcher and discoverer of a cure for some deadly disease

Or
perhaps an inventor that creates an abundant energy source that’s
clean . . . wonderful!

We
love those hopes and dreams for your child!

In
fact have more of those hopes and dreams!

Hope
that your child makes more money than you

and
gets more education than you

And
then your grandchild makes more money than that

and
gets more education than that

And
so on and so on and so on . . . . hope away!

Remember
don’t let anyone take those dreams away from you

.
. . hold on to them with all your might!

By
the way. . .

We’ve
got a plan for your child.

Yes
we do we’ve got a plan and means to enact our plans for your child.

Who
are we?

Well
if we told you our names you wouldn’t recognize them

Or
maybe you would but instead let’s just use

Euphemisms
titles and legal fictions

Either
way you certainly wouldn’t do anything

Except
maybe write a poem or vote

or
something like that at most.

Yes
you keep dreaming and hoping – we keep planning and executing

We’re
going to let 2.0875% of your babies achieve those hopes and dreams

Just
so that 97.9125% keep those hopes and dreams alive

We’re
planning and executing for the year 2143

And
you’re hoping and dreaming and planning and executing

your
budget for this week

We
know because we manipulated your economic situation

Just
like we manipulate your hopes and dreams

Like
programming on radio and television stations.

Listen,
here is the plan for your baby +/- 3.78%

28.914%
will work in managerial level or below state/federal jobs

43.515%
will be incarcerated either because they were convicted of a crime or
because their job is to work at institutions of incarceration

4.325%
will be medical guinea pigs

28.902578%
will be addicted to illegal drugs

89.082113%
will be addicted to legal drugs

21.975%
will run small business

54.0335678783%
. . . . what oh . . . enough of the numbers for now

We
know they bore you and you can’t deduce their significance

we
know because we are responsible for your

education
socialization and intoxication

all
of which is towards the end of diminishment of you

We
know

And
importantly we know we are not even close to being all powerful

Actually
we -- are rather weak or grip is rather tenuous

We
do know -- that you are all powerful

We
just set you against you and then let you be you

That
socio-cultural-inertia is a mofo

So
you just keep your dreams and hopes

Because
we are depending on your babies

In
more ways than you imagine . . . at least for now . . .

Keep
Hope Alive

If
You Can Dream It You Can Achieve It

Hold
On To Your Dreams

Change
is Coming

and

Never
Give Up Hope . . . unless of course we instruct you to do so.

By
Kemit Mawakana (aka The Seven-Foot Poet)

Peace
(when appropriate) War (when necessary)

Kemit
Mawakana (aka “The Seven-Foot Poet”) is a highly acclaimed
spoken-word artist, and has published two books A
. . . Z . . . Infinity
and Crucifixion
of My Soul.
The collective body of his works presented weekly in BAR are in
tribute to Listervelt Middleton, Dr. John Henrik Clarke, and “For
The People”. Currently, he is a facilitator at AYA Educational
Institute (www.ayaed.com)
and can be reached at [email protected].

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