What’s a boy to do?

 What’s a boy to do?

(For Lorena Allam)

 

Lee Scratch Perry’s

Afro-Diaspora

Plays with genius madness

& prophetic gobshite

 

Calling

Out

The

End

Of

Days

Rockin

All

The 

While

 

Whilst

First Nations

Poets-in-being

On Country

 

Still

Project

&

Protect

Eternity

&

Deep listening

Against

Th’ Incessant assault

Of

Corporate

Greed

On top

Of

&

Under

Every

stone

 

Whispering

We’re

Always at the beginning

&

Here

Is where

.

 

So

What’s

A

Boy

To

Do?

 

Does

One tread lightly?

 

&

Appeal

To what’s most holy

In

Man?

 

Or sometimes

Fire

Up

Da

Bass

 

&

B!tchslap

The

Bullies

Back

In their place?

 

(Btw

The last bit’s

Not a conclusion)

 

 

What’s a boy to do?

 

It all sounds light

As if some kind of joke

 

That’s English for you

The folly sounds serious

& the serious sounds folly

 

What’s a boy to do?

 

Malachi Doyle 2021.