For Nia

from Love Is Always Open by Zeke Nealy

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Zeke's powerful poem about institutional racism in the USA, read by Tongo. The piano part for this was composed by Zeke while we were in the studio one day, just fiddling around. I recorded it, and he said "if you can do something with that, go for it." Not until after Zeke had passed away did we turn to using his poems and I remembered this short piano bit he played, and it went with "For Nia" like it was made for it.

lyrics

For Nia..
For the fallen
Only you can lift n balance me now
Keep me from going off like BOOM
I am prayed out marched out
Demonstrated prostrated
Tired of asking multi-tasking
Blogged out have logged it cried shame
Shame shame in vain
said your name too many times
Gathered at too many graves
I have no more we shall overcomes
No more down by the river sides
Left in my right mind
I have left that behind
On the sidewalks and city streets
From holding cells traffic stops
From home invasions to BART
You have not heard nor seen
The often documented violent
Plague of racist attacks murders
Selective genocide that you hide
Behind your legislation of justifiable
Homicide the cape and cloak of
Mental incapacitation to excuse
Your long histories of brutality
No more let justice run its course
Or he/she was on medication
A problem child a misunderstood
Kid under a klan neo-nazi hood
It is unacceptable it is not gonna
Suffice snake eyes on dice
It's past time to defend like Black August
"Ok gentlemen, we are taking over"
The wheel of justice have flat tires
And my/our patience has expired...

Zeke Nealy ©2018

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from Love Is Always Open, released July 24, 2022
Tongo Eisen-Martin: Spoken Word
Erik Ian Walker: piano

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Bottomfeeder Records San Francisco, California

Bottomfeeder records produces local artists in San Francisco and the greater Bay Area. It is the official label of WackoWorld Music, the recording studio owned and operated by Erik Ian Walker.