Woodfox in an iron cage
cold Angola box
twenty three hours
of a twenty four hour day
forty years and counting
huntsman foul play
inhumanity
take away his daylight
throw away the key
riots in a cellblock hellhole
one guard dead
abused inmates unarmed
four decade old
Black panther fear
paranoia of Supremacy
knee-jerk crackdown
on a cause whose back
was broken long ago
George Jackson
Herman Wallace
Martin Luther and Robert King
hundreds more
murdered
buried under bureaucracy
prison lifetimes…
drugs pumped into
inner cities
nodding heads
crack and more dead
commitment gone
still
old Woodfox framed
in his cage
solitary lifetime
poster victim for
the definition of wrong.
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By NEIL BROSNAN: Sole Angola
