Frank
Messina
Disorderly
Conduct
to the people of the world
You’re
all under arrest
for giving in to your oppressors
anything you don’t
do or won’t say
can and will be used against you
You are hereby
charged with
Complacency in the First Degree
Possession of Ambivalence
and failure to obey a distress signal
by your fellow citizens
You
have the right to remain violent
shouting down the Big Machine
with words
of rage till daybreak
instead, you crouch down in silence
drinking, smoking,
choking
while your own family stands on trial
You have the right
to bear arms up
against the cold, steel face of injustice,
break down
barbed walls of dogma,
You have the right to burn your burkas,
the straitjacket,
the suffocating drapery
smothering your daughters’ dreams
You
have the right to make a left turn,
you have the right not to be straight
you have the right to do the right thing
but you’re all guilty, guilty
of everything!
You have the right to
“not go gentle into that
goodnight”
you have the right to fight,
to break open the pale face
of Hatred
and shut it down once and for all
All human race
You
have the right to
steal the keys to Freedom’s door
dangling from
Tyranny’s drooling jaw
you have the right to infiltrate, to violate
to
launch a coup d'état
You have the right to break-in and enter
instead, you break down and bolt
abandoning naked children
lying,
dying, crying
beside the crooked gates of hell
You have the right
to overthrow the king
whose castle’s walls your own hands built
you’re
all guilty, guilty of everything!
Guilty of lethargy
guilty of medicating
your life away
from harsh truths that daylight brings
guilty of talking
the talk
but not walking the walk
guilty of not working for peace
guilty of not working for peace
guilty of not working for peace
Get
against the wall!
You’ve been condemned
and convicted by the
people
for your crimes against them
Look up at the sun
through
blindfolded eyes
until it hurts you to see
Remember those you betray
and
remember, you’re guilty
guilty of everything!
copyright
2001, Frank Messina
News
& Of Note! - Frank
Messina's 40th Birthday Celebration! - With
his all-star group,
OCTOPOET, featuring
Scott Murawski (of
Max Creek),
Robbie Gordon (of
Gil Scott-Heron's Amnesia Express),
Souren Baronian, Victor Jones, Jay Roosa (of
PaPa HooDoo)
with special guests
David Amram, Tyrone Cotton, Ron Whitehead, Dawn Lorentz take
the party toThe
Turning Point February 16th.
Also
Of Note! - The Pix and Video Are In!
- The Cams were there and caught the SoulProse Sights and Sounds
of this Party Night at The Turning Point! Click
Here To View The PhotoBook and also Click
Here To View the VidClip of
Ron Whitehead's kick off of the festivities with his PraisePoem, "Searching
for Frank Messina"
The
New CD from Frank Messina and Ron Whitehead!
"
Walking Home"
Includes
Frank's Mets poems, Playing
for the Mets and Just
a Game. This album features Kentucky legend Ron Whitehead,
country music singer Sarah Elizabeth, blues singer Tyrone Cotton
and Andy Cook. An eclectic spoken word and music album.
Click
Here to read Zoe Artemis' review of "Walking
Home"
Get
your own CD of "Walking Home" Click
Here!
For
more Messina, The Mets and Everything
Poetry! Click Here!
Frank
Messina and OctoPoet
-
Live at The BPC -
Messina
and OctoPoet with special guest, Sudan Baronian slide thru a medley
of the Spokeface favs at The Bowery Poetry
Club. Lensed by Robert O'Haire.
View the medley of
You
Will Not Break Me, Lead Me Not Into Temptation and Rhythm Vacuum
More
Video!
Frank Messina and OctoPoet -
Live at The BPC -
Resolutions
October
2nd, 2004 Messina and OctoPoet take the stage at The
Bowery Poetry Club and what was penned in 2001 is not much different as
we make for 2005. Lensed by Robert O'Haire. Click
Here to view the video!
Also view the classic, "Bicycle"
.
For
more on Frank Messina, go to www.spokeface.com
.
