English 1010-83955
Literary Analysis
12/08/14

Sha Clack Clack

In line one thru seven I think the poet is saying if he could find the alternate universe where past and future meet he would tell his children about his past and bath in their future so he could see how life is so much better for them than it was for him.
In lines eleven thru eighteen it is saying that nothing has changes in his life time and that we are trapped in the past of our ancestors.
In lines He goes on to repeat "I am that Nigga" meaning I am that man or I am that black man. Giving the origin of the work negro tells how little we were thought of as a people. That my people has been fighting for life from the first day the white man set eyes on us.

If I could find the spot where truth echoes
I would stand there and whisper memories of my children's future
I would let their future dwell in my past
So that I might live a brighter now
Now is the essence of my domain and it contains
All that was and will be
And I am as I was and will be because I am and always will be
That nigga
I am that nigga
I am that nigga
I am that timeless nigga that swings on pendelums like vines
Through mines of boobytrapped minds that are enslaved by time
I am the life that supersedes lifetimes, I am
It was me with serpentine hair and a timeless stare
That with immortal glare turned mortal fear into stone time capsules
They still exist as the walking dead, as I do
The original sulphurhead, symbol of life and matriarchy
Severed head Medusa, I am
I am that nigga
I am that nigga!
I am that nigga!!
I am a negro! Yes negro, negro from _necro_ meaning death
I overcame it so they named me after it
And I be spitting at death from behind
And putting "Kick Me" signs on it's back
Because I am not the son of Sha-Clack-Clack
I am before that, I am before
I am before before
Before death is eternity, after death is eternity
There is no death there's only eternity
And I be riding on the wings of eternity
Like HYAH! HYAH! HYAH! Sha-Clack-Clack
But my flight doesn't go undisturbed
Because time makes dreams defer
And all of my time fears are turning my days into daymares
And I live daymares reliving nightmares
Of what taunted my past
Sha-Clack-Clack, time is beatin my ass
And I be havin dreams of chocolate covered watermelons They setting us to fail
Filled with fried chickens like pinatas
With little pickaninny sons and daughters
Standing up under them with big sticks and aluminum foil
Hittin em, tryin to catch pieces of fallin fried chicken wings
And Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben are standing in the corners That we are killing each other
With rifles pointed at the heads of the little children
"Don't shoot the children," I shout, "don't shoot the children!"
But they say it's too late
They've already been infected by time
But that shit is before my time
I need more time
I need more time
But it's too late
They start shooting at children and killing them!
One by one, two by two, three by three, four by four
Five by five, six by six, but
My spirit is growing seven by seven
Faster than the speed of light
Cause light only penetrates the darkness that's already there
And I'm already there
I'm here at the end of the road
Which is the beginning of the road beyond time, but
Where my niggas at? (Oh shit!)

Oh shit, don't tell me my niggas got lost in time
My niggas are dying before their time
My niggas are serving unjust time
My niggas are dying because of.. time
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