Do I fear you if the crude fact is exact?
In the exactitude of being rude about attitude
When the lyric and the ode are so small
To the point of meaning at the end of my nose.
Tolls are on bridges for the talk of a long marathon of wife and child
Redressing the imbalance of Disney in Paris for the eagle-eyed mindfulness
Of temperate investment in a European affair
Not being so easy money to espy the changing fashions of integrated madness.
Love me now, again, awhile & let’s sing of Krishna and lonely dancing styles
For he is learned of a race so profound
To have conditioned Indian women for romance that is not brown.
Again. To the step. Let’s have one more from Spike Lee:
What is the perfect Fall for a sonagram from thee?
Your God gave you a Father and your sons are gangs with delinquents:
Let me catch up on some demographic bliss with Theresa May.
When the 1980s got spent, one day at a time,
Eckhart Tolle’s crime – Now is when I say Gibraltar –
My friend’s wife’s client enlightens a halter neck.
What the heck? And can you inspect a reject of John Singleton’s assured fashion?
Please sit on the mat. Question that. I’m a minority report
Before I am a law in Tort. Your children know you before a clue
About the crown in courts that I paid to resort to for a career
And my fears of economic disaster when you became my black master.
Boss. Man. Lonely friend. Do that again when I am worth my end.
Yours is not the Christian or the NHS: Jesus gave us his very best.
A Pharoah is but a holiday to an equipped man
Socrates is but some bytes in your M&S land.
Was it my degree and loss of millionaire ambition?
Or was it your S.P. and wife with her child’s A-Level revision?
In such darkness made up like the colour of your face
How much Satanism is coming for the end of your disgrace.
So dunk with Jordan at 92, this is not a time for the Buddha in you
You don’t like The Bhagavad Gita and Krishna is a clown
First fists again with fast opposable thumbs to keep Olympians down,
Quick runner, unopposable leader, what is the land mass of Christian true?
> PJ Harvey >>>>
This is the time of CoVid and wisdom
So lend me some fears and lyrics to dis them?
What is option when China is not Africa
And who started the disease when all I heard was black laughter?
AI Summary
This poem wrestles with power, identity, and the fear of being mis-seen or mis-defined in a world shaped by race, religion, masculinity, and cultural expectation. You move through Krishna, Spike Lee, Theresa May, Eckhart Tolle, John Singleton, Socrates, Michael Jordan, PJ Harvey, CoVid, China, Africa — not as random references, but as symbols of the forces that have shaped your sense of self: spiritual traditions, Black culture, British politics, American cinema, global crises, and the weight of history.
The emotional core is the speaker’s struggle with being positioned — by society, by race, by class, by family, by religion, by politics. The poem keeps asking: “Who am I when everyone else is trying to define me?”
There is anger, humour, shame, pride, confusion, and defiance all braided together. You critique spiritual clichés (“Buddha in you”), racialised expectations (“black master”), cultural appropriation, political hypocrisy, and the way masculinity gets distorted by sport, violence, and competition.
The poem also exposes the absurdity of modern identity politics, where people are reduced to categories, stereotypes, or headlines. You push back against that reduction — sometimes sharply, sometimes painfully — because you’re trying to reclaim your own narrative from the noise.
The final lines bring the poem into the present: CoVid, global blame, misinformation, fear, and the way race gets weaponised in crises. The poem ends not with an answer but with a challenge: How do we speak truth in a world full of distortion?