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Black Dada Nihilismus by Leroi Jones (Amiri Baraka)
Black Dada Nihilimus

By Amiri Baraka

. Against what light is false what breath sucked, for deadlines. Murder, the cleansed purpose, frail, against God, if they bring him bleeding, I would not forgive, or even call him black dada nihilismus

The protestant love, wide windows, color blocked to Mondrian, and the ugly silent deaths of jews under the surgeon's knife. (To awake on 69th street with money and a hip nose. Black dada nihilismus, for

the umbrella'd jesus. Trilby intrigue movie house presidents sticky the floor B.D.N., for the secret men, Hermes, the

blacker art. Thievery (ahh, they return those secret gold killers. Inquisitors of the cocktail hour. Trismegistus, have

them, in their transmutation, from stone to bleeding pearl, from lead to burning looting, dead Moctezuma, find the West

a gray hideous space

2. From Sartre, a white man, it gave the last breath. And we beg him die, before he is killed. Plastique, we

do not have, only thin heroic blades. The razor. Our flail against them, why you carry knives? Or brutalized lumps of

heart? Why you stay, where they can reach? Why you sit, or stand, or walk in this place, a window on a dark

warehouse. Where the minds packed in straw. New homes, these towers, for those lacking money or art. A cult of death,

need of the simple striking arm under the streetlamp. The cutters, from under their rented earth. Come up, black dada

nihilismus. Rape the white girls. Rape their fathers. Cut the mothers' throats. Black dada nihilismus, choke my friends

in their bedrooms with their drinks spilling and restless for tilting hips or dark liver lips sucking splinters from the master's thigh

Black scream and chant, scream, and dull, un earthly

hollering. Dada, bilious what ugliness, learned in the dome, colored holy shit (i call them sinned or lost         burned masters                                 of the lost                                                nihil German killers                                                                             all our learned art, 'member what you said money, God, power, a moral code, so cruel it destroyed Byzantium, Tenochtitlan, Commanch                                                                          (got it, Baby! For tambo, willie best, dubois, patrice, mantan, the bronze buckaroos. for Jack Johnson, asbestos, tonto, buckwheat, billie holiday For tom russ, l'ouverture, vesey, beau jack, (may a lost god damballah, rest or save us against the murders we intend against his lost white children black dada nihilismus