The African Brain of Kwame Ture
by Sabrina Dawkins
Son of the Serpent Cain
brought you plastic that won’t decompose,
soda, which destroys you internally
and toilets that use clean drinking water:
a short-term unsustainable luxury,
system based on waste.
The scientist Marcus Garvey
did an experiment in which he studied
what constituted the African brain
and what constituted the mind of Cain.
Inside African DNA
he found green edible leaves.
But under the leprous skin
of Cain’s descendants
he found the skull
was made of white plastic.
So he came back
as Kwame Ture
to finish his work
promoting the African brain.