ALL NEGROS OF THE WORLD

BEAT POEMS 2: ALL NEGROS OF THE WORLD

(Including pilferage from Turkish poet Ceyhun Atif Kansu)

“Bring me the negros, all negros of the world

Let only them carry my coffin”

Last words of street child Selami...

I mean all negros of the world

Bring here all negros

Not only the black skinned ones

Bring me all belittled people

I mean all ignored ones

“the stepchildren of Allah”¹

on whose face the Pain is

flapping like a flag,

I will swear last time to capitalism and you

then I will fuck off from this damn planet

I mean all negros of the world

Bring here the street negros

who are written on the notebook of the life

like a spelling error

who are outright fired from

the abdomen of their moms

The ones manured by beating

watered by swearing

I mean the thistles

in the duskiest garden of Arabesque

whose history we memorialize

with scattered syllables

Bring me the ones saying “Love me with my fault”²

Bring the ones saying “Love fucked my mom, baby”³

I mean all negros of the world

Bring here the construction negros

with their dreams reclined on foreing land

the ones knitting the Reunion letter by letter

the ones ignored by pimps with necktie

Bring me the negros cleaning ladder

hero elder sisters with their palms

barricade for hunger

eagle wing on their kids

I mean all negros of the world

The massacred, assimilated, exiled negros

Bring me all pain birds massacred in Kurdistan

All bloody letters exiled from Dersim in 1938

Also the ones you carried out genocide in 1915

Bring me the mountains shushing the Past

in Armenian, Assyrian and Greek

I mean all negros of the world

I am a son of a bitch

I scratched my pains on the logbook of the sky

but nobody gives a fuck

although I scream with pain

how many ramshackle walls

are feeling chilly inside me

how many times the stumpy atlas of my name

have been damaged

I mean all negros of the world

This shit which I stuff in my vessel

to delay the Pain

has reached to overdose this time

but I live in the curse of all negros whether you can't see

one day all negros bring all ownership

and oppression masters to account

I have been heavy tonnage starved,

I was a bastard in this streets

all nettle nights and stray dogs know this very well

even my own mom doesn't mercify me,

only sparrows search the place of my grave

I was born once but have been died countless times

every day in your cruel planet

Fuck your capitalism, your ownership greed

I am fucking off now by making my pain a mirror

to your dark consicience

Enough! Now put lousy newsprint papers on me

Anyhow the municipality buries my waif corpse

Bring here all negros

SERKAN ENGIN

Lastbench Literary Magazine, Issue 1/ 2017

“The stepchildren of Allah”¹: Yilmaz Odabasi (Kurdish poet)

“Love me with my fault”²: Orhan Gencebay (Turkish singer)

“Love fucked my mom, baby”³: Serkan Engin (Laz-Turk poet)