I Love You by Amir Sulaiman
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I love you

So how must I feel about those who want to....control you, Jim Crow you, Cointell Pro you, F16 you, crack feign you, clusterbomb you, Vietnam you, napalm you, lost and found you, lost in the rubble; surround and pound you, humiliate you, debase you, erase you from your history, imitate and replace you, take you, rape you, use hip hop to beat break you, pop lock you, Biggie and Tupac you. I love you.

I love you.

So how must I feel about those who want to....assualt and abuse you, hoodwink and bamboozle you, Baghdad and Fallujah you, homeland secure you, Patriot Act you, entrap you, firing line you, hog tie you, solitary confine you, Palestine you, politically imprison you, steal you, Imam Jamil you, lie to you, racially profile and follow you, Amadou Diallo you, Malcom X you, snipe you, AK you, JFK you, MLK you, I love you.

I love you.

So how must I feel about those who want to....capture you, badger you, John the Baptist you, crucify you, apartheid you, landmine you, diamond mine you, glock you, if they don't Tupac Shakur you, then Afeni Shakur you, or Assata Shakur you, 3/5 compromise you, deaf dumb and blind you, cage you, Abu Ghriab you, Guantanamo Bay you, Attica and Pelican Bay you, use hip hop to beat break you, DJ cut you and cross fade you, I love you.

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I Love You. From the album by HBO Def Poet, Amir Sulaiman, "Like A Thief in the Night". Available now on Uprising Records.

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