BROTHER MAN – FOR KAMAU BRATHWAITE

Malachi D. Smith

I shall not remove my cover
My head is sacred ground

I shall not cut my beard
It is a monument

I shall not speak with your tongue
I have my own

We shall not see eye to eye
Mine is the universe
Yours inverse

 

Malachi D. Smith is an award-winning Jamaican dub poet.  A retired member of the Jamaica Constabulary Force at the rank of detective corporal, he is based in Miami.