Just Pieces Of A Man

By Kokumo Noxid

Dub poetry from Birmingham performance artist Kokumo Noxid.

• Language: English
• Publisher: APS Books
• Release date: Jun 17, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201146672

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DEDICATED TO O’SHAI DIXON

These poems were written during a two-year period of lockdown, due to the Pandemic. This is reflection on what could’ve been, but mostly how things are. This period required inner strength and most importantly, something to hold on to. This is ultimately a dedication to all my sons, but mainly my youngest who kept me going, kept me inspired to live. There is no greater joy in knowing that your life is worthwhile, because you’ve got responsibilities and those that look to you for guidance and I-tection.

For all that I give thanks to Jah Rastafari, for guidance and I-tection and continued will to live and love life to the fullest.

Living has never stopped anyone from dying...so why not live?

JUST PIECES OF A MAN: THE POEMS

When The Vaccination Comes

Virtual Reality

Still Running In Chains

Aid Travel With A Vaccine

Are You Checking Out

The Letter

The Hill We Climb Is Rocky

Pain To Anger

...’Your Government Is Lying’

...’Your Government Is Lying Pt.2’

Now, Then, A Change Comes, Over The Matter

20/20 Re-Vision

A British Scorn

A Chokehold

A Dead Give Away

A Party For The Empire

A Silent Poem

A Virus Circle

A Snake Eating Its Tail

A.I.

After

Bad Mind A Kill Dem

Black Victims, White Justice

Black-Story Is Not White-History

Black’n Blue

Before You

Buy-O-Warfare

Chicago

Con-Virus For BLKS

Crumbling End-Pires

De Going Out/De Coming In

Death Traps Set For Blacks

Deep In Silence

Dem Com Aghen

Disease Is A Business Plan

Do It Like You Mean

Drum Beats An' Dread

Echoes Of The Past

Empire’s Curse

Excuse Me

Feelings/Unthinkable

Freedom Isn’t Just A State Of Mind

I Only Want To See You Die

I

A Man

I Mind

I See Ghosts People

I Think I Should shoot

I-Rebel

I-Soul-Ation

Ignoring The Signs, Whilst Worshipping The Symbols

In The House Of The Rising Sun

Contagion

It’s Not About Us, But Us

Somebody Blew Up Corona

...So, You Don’t Think Your Government Would Lie

Insanity With A Blur Vision

They Made The World Sick For Profit

Freedom Ghost

Some Great Ones

Bow To De Vax

Black Rage Caged

Britain’s Streets Of Terror

Still Got Time To Be Racist

A White-Mail Saga

Whipping From Horse Backs

Brought, Bought and Stole

Native Spirit

Nano-Bug In I Soup

A Shadow Government

A Poem For Invaders

The Copy Isn’t Carbon

Death To Freedom Of Speech

Swinging

The Results

Raiders Of The Ark

If A Virus Could Speak

Dred Man Walking

The Devil We Know

Logical Reasoning (Wanted)

Just Pieces Of A Man

Saving Grace

Black In A White World ( A Reflection In Black)

Paradise In The Sun

Whitey Gone To Space

De-Population Exploits

Like The Silence

The Looters

Are You Checking Out?

Ancient Truth Seekers

A Poem For The Many

A.I. In Our Brains

Same Old England

Hey Mister Pusher Man

99 Death Wishes

Stone Cold

Black Ma’thematics

White In America

Reparations Should’ve Come, At The ‘End’ Of The Whips

Die-Versify Fe Money

Mentally Transmitted Diseases

Programmed To Kill

F-Laws

Blood Under The Moonlight

Still The Gavel Drops

Without Healing/Kneeling For Blood

Time Fe Si Dung An’ Reason

Nothing New Year

Naked For Likes

The Commonwealth

The Rights (Reich)

No Rest In Peace

Tek Weh De Lectern Stand

Tiering Down

The Capital

The Truth Never Lied

The Sphere

This Is A Cry-Sis

Tears Symphony

Young Bloods

A Prisoner’s State Of Mind

The One Love Rhetoric Had Stalled The Revolution

O Brother, Where Art Thou

Jahmayka Gone

Heckle Fe De Dub

They Always Come In Peace

Som’ Dub Poets

LockStep En Barrels

We Came Together, Leaving Is Not The Same

WHEN THE VACCINATION COMES

When the vaccination comes

You will be caught inside

With the freedom to go outside

Being denied

Without being injected

Untested, with no known side effects

You can’t gather in public places

Because everyone might be infected

When the vaccination comes

There will be no talks of 5G masts

No point wearing masks

For fear of exposure

There will be no more pleasure

They’ve terminated all leisure

Activities will be a virtual reality

When the vaccination comes

There will be no quarantine

Once you agreed

There’s no guarantee

You won’t be cured

Because the disease is the portion

Developed through incubation

Now WHO will answer questions

When the vaccination comes

Pharmaceutical companies

And Bill Hates foundation

Will make monies

From using you like laboratory monkeys

Presidents and prime ministers

Will continue to be lackeys

Making false speeches through press conference

When the vaccination comes

They’ll be talks about microchips

And crypto currency

Creating a cashless society

There will be heartless laws

Lawful clauses, with flaws

To deny you liberty

Leaving the streets

To tear gas and rubber bullets

When the vaccination comes

Posthumous celebrations

Will take centre stage

With no outright outrage

We’re all contagiously contained

To feel the same

But self-distancing will remain

When the vaccination comes

It won’t change the colour of our skin

But we may be able

To shift the paradigm

Even though a mask covers the grins

There’s still an enemy within

When the vaccination comes

Revolution will be mandatory

It won’t be a re-run

From a rehearsal practice

It will be active

When the vaccination comes

When the vaccination comes

When the vaccination comes

There will be no need

For televised commercials

Selling us lies

VIRTUAL REALITY

The world is just catching up 

But we’ve long had enough

Of being locked up

Serving a life sentence for a joint

Coke will get you a night

If you’re white

Police brutality designed 

To be the mastermind, behind 

Oppressing black minority 

The verdict is always guilty 

Their knees don’t kneel to pray

They’re planted firmly 

In the necks by preys

So, we’re left choked

Only a few remain awoke 

To know there are different strokes 

For white folks

There’s no equal yoke

All that marching, disappeared with the smoke 

All that dream

Blocked by a screen 

Silenced by the screams

Of a mother’s tears

Shedding, as she begs 

For the safe return of her son

A trip to the corner store

Isn’t safe anymore 

Even shopping is a risk

To land a cuff on your wrist 

A quick draw from the hips

Of a white supremacist 

Is a straight aim, 

On the story twist-ed again 

To fit the false narrative 

That a weapon was present 

Prosecutor calls the evidence solid 

No guiltiness on their conscience  

Trapped in a bubble

That becomes a prison 

Is the new attraction 

Seems like the option given 

Lacks reasons, the focus

Is serving the purpose 

Of those who see us 

In this virtual reality 

Where freedom exist in a hologram 

An algorithm programmes 

STILL RUNNING IN CHAINS

Hands on the trigger

They’ve got a bullet for a niggah

That’s the American way

‘O say can’t you see’

The prison system was designed for we 

Reaping profits, filling their pockets

That’s why they allowed gang culture to flourish

So, they can continue to benefit

Nothing is scarier than the American Dream

Locked in a nightmare it seems

So, you wake up napping

When they come knocking

Caught you doping up on crack-in jokes

Because for black folks, opportunities are far reaching

But it easier to get into the penal system

So, even if you kneel

You’re still a victim

Because the justice league 

Isn’t the same as the football league 

You make the money

To make her please

Until she’s ready to leave 

Taking it all for child support

Because they’ve already planned your downfall 

Trying to climb up Jacob’s Ladder

And when you drop

They’ll find another

Lining up behind each other

Brother, where art thou 

Are you your brother’s keeper

Or just a fortune seeker

Blinded by the curved ball coming your way

Sankofa should be your guide today 

Even if their college 

Is your place of knowledge

Until you learn that our ways were solid

Before they rendered it invalid

Can’t you see the captors are the same...ones

Got you caught up in the games

Still running in chains

Even if there’s no dogs chasing

America is still a slave system

AID TRAVEL WITH A VACCINE

(inspired by Jean Binta Breeze’s, Aid Travel With A Bomb)

Watch Out!

Aid travel with a vaccine 

Watch out

Aid travel with a vaccine 

Buy-ological warfare

Polluting de air 

With a virus

Flying through de atmosphere

All of a sudden

World governments care

To offer up, free healthcare 

Aid travel with a vaccine

Look out 

Aid travel with a vaccine 

Government actions

Swift to plan 

An election 

Wid pandemic on de land 

Infection rates escalate

With a Bill standing at the gates

Sliding like a deadly snake

Aid travel with a vaccine

Look out

Aid travel with a vaccine 

American aids coming fe free

Field hospitals 

Fe de country 

Yet de infrastructure 

A dilly dolly

Healthcare nevah free before

Now free vaccination 

Coming for the poor

Aid travel with a vaccine 

Watch out

Aid travel with a vaccine 

Mek wi talk bout de meetings 

Of Commonwealth 

Where commoners 

Nevah get nuh help

An’ de deals dem sign

Is not a peace of mind

But a nightmare 

To mek yuh live in fear

Aid travel with a vaccine 

Look out

Aid travel with