In the Temple of X

In the Temple of X

In the temple of X
no pimping
except MX pimping himself
everybody rich in temple
everybody in Mercedes
no poor once you get the light
Supreme Wisdom
don't get it but don't get it
you got it or ain't got it!
get real
you rich in the name of the Divine within yourself
You within God, God within you
no spook gods, no mysteries, no hoke as poke as rituals
heaven after you die
heaven while you live
death is hell
Sun Ra said to die is the only sin!

just plain truth
in the temple of X
no tithes, no slavery
take time for wife and family
no preacher get all the money
members starve
let's have burial plan, health plan
do for self plan
for everybody
use the mind God gave you plan
as Mama taught
showed with her do for self life
no welfare
no food stamps
just her country girl brain
common sense woman
raise eleven of us
including two grands
what manner of woman (rip)
I her special child
didn't know til siblings told me
later in life.
but she wouldn't have me for no man.
too lost in them books.
wouldn't do nothing on her mini farm.
irrigate crops, feed chickens, nothing
lost in them books
no good for wife
Mama said I needed maid, secretary, mistress
no wife.
Mama deep in her spirituality:
know the truth, truth will set you free.
No medicine cabinet in house, no pills, no doctor visit
know the truth, truth will set you free of dis-ease.

In the temple of X
all truth represented
will you hide truth while you know?

Nat Turner's in the temple of X
Harriet and Sojourner
Ida B. Wells
Booker T.
DuBois and Garvey
Noble Drew and Master Fard
Elijah and Malcolm
Martin too!
Nkrumah and Kwame Toure
Mandela and Winnie too.
in the temple of X.
How bout you?
Amiri, Askia, Sonia, Nikki
Haki, Ngugi wa Thi'ango
Wole Soyinka.
all member of the temple of X.
--Marvin X
5/1//10

Bay Area folks can join Marvin X for a celebration of his latest book The Wisdom of Plato Negro, Parables and Fables, Black Bird Press, Berkeley, 309 pages, $100.00. The celebration, read-in/teach-in will be at the African American Museum Library, 14th and Martin Luther King, Jr, downtown Oakland, Saturday, May 15, 2pm, donations accepted, but the book is $100.00.
The black liberation army soldiers will read to you free of charge. Advance the cultural revolution. Long Live the Black Arts Movement. Long Live Hip Hop!
www.parablesandfablesofmarvinx.blogspot.com