GOING DOWN ON MOSES

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Going Down on Moses
—for Ishmael Reed


“…the honey was being
stored up against the
advent of a queen and
who was the lucky
queen and when?”
—William Faulkner,
Go Down, Moses

Swollen Heartache—
Bruised black & blue
How Moses hurt me…
How he hurt me bad!

Going down on him—
Getting him off real nice
All it took was Honey…
On my bruised Lips!

Like Quentin Compson—
In love with Dalton Ames
My tongue-tip be way…
Up his pouty asshole!
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Like nelly Henry Sutpen—
Old Miss dorm rendezvous
With my beautiful hung…
Bon cute boyfriend!

Going Down on Moses—
It’s a queer thing that
Runs down deep in my…
Mississippi Family.

L.Q.C. McCaslin—
Queer for Thucydus
His dinge half-brother…
Carolina Boyz!
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Getting it on—
With his Offspring
Shadow Family even…
His own daughter!!!

GDM runs thick—
Bruised black & blue
Buck & Billy got it…
Queer thru & thru.

Antebellum dynasty—
So many Cain & Able’s
Sharing the same Stall…
In the gay Stable!!!
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Uncle Billy gets off—
Buying the last Slave
At McCaslin Manor…
He couldn’t help it.

Percival the Pretty—
Mandingo kept man
Purest pale white skin…
He be Albino kept boy.

Freedom from Slavery—
Freed all the Slaves
But Uncle Buck be…
Breeder for Dinge Love.
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Interracial love—
Intergenerational lust
No way of stoppin’ it…
Mongrel Mississippi mauve!

Grab it! Squeeze it!—
Peel that uncut head
Back all the way, then it’s…
Go Down on Moses time!!!

Fuck Mount Sinai—
Fuck the Ten Commandments
It be that Black Ten Inches…
That stalks you & me.
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Holy Mackerel, Andy!!!—
Holy Kingfish says Academe
All the Faulkner scholars…
Their knickers in a twist!!!

All the way down, baby!—
Delta Autumn in the woods
Roth fathers a black kid…
Knows his Family Tree.

So does Uncle Ike—
Elderly Isaac McCaslin
Who reads the Ledgers late…
One night way back when.
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Being Black & Gay—
It be clear as Night & Day
Lucius Quintus Queen Bee…
Carothers All the Way!!!

Funny how it works out—
Dinge Delta Diaspora
Deep South East of Eden…
Queer Aristocracy.

All those tall white—
Grecian grooved columns
Plantation Temples to the…
Gods of Cotton, Rum & Cane!
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Rum, Women & Slaves—
Vast Carib Empire coming up
From Haitian Voodoo Island…
To our Afro-American Land.

Two Races wrestling—
Like Jacob & his Angel
One sprains his Thigh…
The Other sayz “My oh My!!!”

That’s how it works—
Genesis Lives Thru Us
Testicular & Intimate…
Genealogical Mystery!!!