We Are Not Mantan

WE ARE NOT MANTAN
               or BUCK/wheat
 
false comic images
singers&dancers
a heritage
               is not what is made
               like T.V.’s
               but what is
 
we are
HANNIBAL
coming through the alps
and SHAKA
defending his homeland
and NAT TURNER
spreading black terror
through the fields
 
               we are
               those who were
               warriors
               and who entertained
               the man with death.