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Malcolm X. Banjo

E. Martin Pedersen

I’m Malcolm X. Banjo, bro
I thump the hambone in the only all-black punk-funk bluegrass band in the West
All new age style Afro-grass post-apartheid world music
See I am black but was raised by white hillbillies, adopted at birth,
syncopated rated, then traded by mistake with my Caucasoid twin,
black shadow stalking
I can do the shuck and jive, I jump Jim Crow, I am Mr. Interlocutor
In the world’s only all-hemophiliac, ebony minstrel Cosby Show
Festival Medicine Man Extravaganza and Fish Fry
  I don’t drink Bosco, I don’t eat Oreo
I don’t wear colors besides orange, black and chains
My motto is, “Better f-word black than n-word black!”
Minister Farakan inspires me, Hailie Selassee adores me
Michelle O and Magic Johnson taught me to sing, “Cripple Creek” or “Muleskinner Blues”
  I play the comb and tissue paper with a gloved fist raised
If the white man talks to me I am courteous because I know
He’s thinking I am trying not to act Uncle Tom
And I’m thinking he has no idea of the jet-black O.J. blade tidal wave of melodic antebellum doubletime vengeance
That is right behind him ready to crash on his hideous slavedriver soul
  When I play the country hit: “Color TV in the 90’s”
Ozzie Davis and Ruby Dee hug and dance for cookies and milk
Seein’ an’ feelin’ the blue heat of the riots right before they happen
SpikeLee big white hat, mirror shades, Oprah Network Nikes – hidden in plain swingin’ sight
Frail those spraypaint guns at Somali Pakistani Iraqi and East Palo Alto too
  Music is my panther life, my African roots
I express my ethnic pride X-ness by playing
The five-string gourd banjo and pea green hurdy-gurdy in the world’s only n-word
All Narcoleptic
Blackgrass Rhythm Blood Donation Band and James Brown Ice Cream Social.

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