Baraka, Amiri (LeRoi Jones): Syncretism

BAD NEWS SAY
KILL
           DRUM
But Drum
no

    die

just
    act     slick

drum turn
     mouth
     tongue
         drum go voice
         be hand
         on over
                     hauls
         dont die

         how some ever

         drum turn slick

    never
    no drum
    never
    never
    die

   be a piano
          a fiddle
          a nigger tap
          fellah

    drum’ll
          yodel
   if it need to

Thing say Kill drum
but drum
      dont die/dont even
               disappear

& drum cant die
        & wdn’t

              no way!