New Poetry from Lamont Lilly

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coup d’état

there can be no peace

until every child

has a hot meal

there can be no treaties

until we sit down

and negotiate the revolution.

not one hostage

shall be released

until you hang those

policemen.

until those judges

mayors and corrupt officials

are all buried

alive.

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Lamont Lilly was the 2016 Workers World Party Vice-Presidential Candidate. In 2015 he was an Indy Week “Citizen Award” winner for his activism and journalism. The presented selections are from his forthcoming debut Honor in the Ghetto. Plain but poignant, his poetry directly derives from the marginalized, from the streets of mass struggle, from the Black experience and U.S. South.

Mr. Lamont Lilly

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