Last night, a dream came; <br />flying though bright speculations <br />and the Mundus Novus dawning. <br /> <br />Mumbled voices and profound words, <br />all mistaken for Universal Truth. <br /> <br />Fire Hoses and the sharp teeth of dogs; <br /> Burn down the Negro. <br />Mississippi child home, <br />sick. <br /> <br />Twenty-second day of November- 1963. <br /> <br />The Motorcade, <br /> Bleeding, <br /> Unconscious. <br /> <br />Parkland Memorial Hospital (Dallas, TX) - <br /> Burn down the Nation, <br /> Fire hoses- National Guard Troops. <br /> <br />'From Dallas, Texas, the flash, apparently official.' <br /> <br />We shall stay as long as the struggle, <br />Flashing semaphore distress <br /> <br />Marching to the Mountain Top <br />over the sinking ship- America. <br /> <br />And all the while... <br /> Like in Selma, <br /> Like in Washington, <br /> Like in Memphis- <br /> <br />Dr. King marches on. <br /> <br />Fire hoses wash the blood from the streets <br /> <br />Priests in flack jackets, <br /> Preach to dead civil rights workers. <br /> <br />To ANY- <br />and ALL who would ask- <br /> <br />'You can be filled with bitterness, <br />and with hatred, and a desire for revenge.' <br /> <br />Like in Berkley, <br /> Like in Ohio, <br /> Like in the chants of Thanksgiving. <br /> <br />Hear my antithesis; <br />Anti-war, <br />Anti-media, <br />Anti-mother, <br />Anti-father. <br /> <br />He, who is not busy being born, <br />is busy dying. <br /> <br />April 4,1968- <br /> <br />From every star in the Universe, <br /> From every blade of grass, <br /> Like the horror that comes in three- <br /> <br />SIRHAN <br />SIRHAN <br /> <br />And all the while in California- California. <br />The sign of White-hooded madmen <br />spell out a message of H A T E. <br /> <br />K- JFK <br />K- MLK <br />K- RFK <br /> <br />Let this Black
