Monument Ave

from Incredible Heat Machines by soluh!

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i’m on monument ave
climbing up columns to reach
stonewall jackson’s throat
call me arthur ashe’ serving
books from the racquet
zombie kids a-grabbin’
they shot me
in front of robert e lee’s statue
asked me to smile harder
yes, i was the rapper
things were going
south

zoom out
see henrico
clutching richmond
in its varicose claw
each road, an asphalt
vein tattooin plantation land
not many blacks out here
‘least, not anymo
the deeper we go
the more i expect
a police escort
to my grave

red light i scan right
a white man dressed
in undercover cop car
looks through me
longer than violence
i ignore my jailhouse
routine & carefully strip
the meat of a peach
the leftover spine
is a rope too small
to noose my neck

green light i keep my head
on the road, welcome the bend
before the bridge & the opening:

I am the opening w/o bullets’ breach
I am the soil bench pressing my oppressors
I am tribe, tireless and otherworldly
Our black engine hearts oiled obsidian slick

I am what happens when Atlas looks up from the atlas
I am Afrika lynched by her phantom limbs
I, sharp as the hatchet of one-sided history
Ocean blood drumming the shore
Extending myself to water the seeds

We rain as dead leaves
but I got faith in the spring
We rain as dead leaves
but I got faith in the spring

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from Incredible Heat Machines, released February 29, 2016

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Soluh is a hip hop duo with Robalu on the Rhymes and poetry and BSTFRND on the Beats and production.

Delivering sun-charged rhythms fresh, from the river city to BK.

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