ABSTRACT
yesterday on live television prime time mr. newsman asked me who i thought our great white hope was for this election year and i said, “this colored queer don’t have a hope to drop-dead on” i called for rebolusiyon cause i got real tired of asking real nice like for our human rights and i figure what would it matter anyway, since they don’t listen to queers or coloreds unless they get downright aggressive and mean and use big words like rebolusiyon all of a sudden they get these malnutritioned visions of apocalypse in their minds about killin’ people and burnin’ shit up. rebolusiyon is a big smart benevolent word that involves more than violence rebolusiyon starts with the mind and the self like bright yellow knowledge imploding in your brain merging with your deep deepest soul-part then coming out your mouth out your hands out your private parts and falling dead smack in the middle of your heart. so you see rebolusiyon ain’t scary, uh-uh, in fact, rebolusiyon is a freeing, mango-juicy dope fat, fresh, fly liberating emancipating ejaculating gyrating titillating bootie-grooving earth-moving this is the dawning of the age of aquarius love thang wrapped up in a whole lot of historical common sense. word. funny thing is since i look like a monkey in suits and t.v. only gives you five seconds to speak your peace i thought that rebolusiyon was like offering the world a one-word poem. —October 1992
