Maya Angelou Reacts To Zimmerman Trial, Evokes Civil Rights Era

Time Swampland ^ | July 16, 2013 | Maya Rhodan

[ComputerGuy]

The author of some of the most incomprehensible gibberish in the history of the English language.

[FredZarguna]

I Sink

You may write me down in history
As one whose rhymes do truly stink
You may trash and parody my doggerel
But still, like mud, I sink.

Does my greediness upset you?
Is that why you're beset with gloom?
'Cause I spend other peoples' money like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room?

Just like a small time grifter
With a scam that makes you think
No literate person could take me seriously,
Yet with liberals, I don't sink.

Did you want to see me triumph?
Throw off the liberal lies?
Well that aint gonna happen
We'll trash any Black that tries.

Does my haughtiness offend you?
Aren't you ever gonna learn?
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
From money other people earned.

You may hoot me for my "poems,"
They should throw me in the klink
For these awful first grade ballads
No depth's so low that I won't sink.

Does my pretentiousness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That progressives think I'm talented?
[Well, based on history, why?]

Back into the huts of history's shame
I sink
Down into a past I didn't live, and can't let go
I sink
I'm a Black bore, droning on,
Welling and swelling, but my lines should make me hide
Leaving behind verses worse than turds
That sink
Into a poverty, dependency, and illigitemacy
I sink
Squandering the gifts that my ancestors got,
I am the disappointment and the despair of the slave.
I sink
I sink
I sink.

[tumblindice]

An Ode to Maya (for as long as it lasts)

A gorilla that lives in the zoo
Has a roommate named M. Angelou.
.. She waves his long dong
.. And hoses the throng—
Be a Lert! Next time might be you.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

JUST THE TWO OF US - FROM AUSTIN POWERS THE SPY THAT SHAGGED ME

[Dr. Evil speaking]
This is a very sensitive subject..
[Background]
Just.. the.. two of us (Just the two of us)

Dr. Evil: Yeaah!
From the moment I heard Frau, say I had a clone
I knew that I’d be safe cuzz I’d never be alone
An evil doctor shouldn’t speak a lot about his feelings
My hurt and my pain don’t make me too appealing
I hoped Scott, would look up to me
Run the business, of the family
Head an evil empire, just like his dear old dad
Give him my love and the things I never had
Scott would think, I was a good guy
Return the love I have, make me want to cry
Be evil, but have my feelings too
Change my life like Oprah, and Maya Angelou
But Scott rejected me
Cest la vie
Life is cruel
Treat you unfairly
But still, a God there must be
Mini-Me
You complete me
[Chorus]
Just.. the.. two of us...
Repeat x2 until end

[Obadiah]

Yeah, that's all we need is for people to start spouting off about how the autopsy report said, “xyz” and then have that blow up in our face. We need to be factual. The case is strong enough without makin’ up stuff and thereby conceding the high ground to the agitators and leftists,

[sappy]

i’m here to learn LOL

[a fool in paradise]

When I want to hear something from a poet, I'll go order from the clerk at Starbucks.

[Georgia Girl 2]

There will never be an end to it. The perpetually outraged are never satisfied. We all need to start ignoring them.

[SteveH]

This is genius. There is a fake maya twitter somewhere, maybe it deserves wider circulation.

[Red in Blue PA]

There once was a thug named Trayvon

Finish it Maya

[Red in Blue PA]

LOL!

[Mortrey]

You’re right-sorry -I was so mad that I didn’t read all documents included.

I have seen the author of the blog’s writing before -Andrea Shea King- and trusted her.

I won’t throw ALL the info contained therein out, though.

[GWfan]

ROFL!!!
You win!

[dead]

Thanks. I’m so proud. I am as good a poet as Maya Angelou!

[Stentor]

Drooling gasbag.

[Yosemitest]

Question: HOW MANY BREAKINS Has There Been In THE RETREAT AT TWIN LAKES Since Trayvon Martin ?

[Hoodat]

Decades later, Angelou reflected on those words. “It is of interest that we are now celebrating that speech at the same time that there are people in the street again all over the country protesting the Zimmerman trial,” Angelou said.

People protesting in the street are doing so solely on the color of Trayvon Martin's skin - not on the content of his character.

[windsorknot]

A Rock, a River, a Tree
I think I have to pee