Parables/Fables
Marvin X
“Is Marvin X a parable or fable? We doubt a Marvin X exists! We double doubt there is a Plato Negro!”
—Amiri Baraka
"He's the USA's Rumi!"
"Jeremiah, I presume! I am sure these parables are a first in America exploiting this literary category. People will wonder where to place these parables and fables. You have expanded contemporary literature. I suspect there is nothing like them in post-modern American literature."
--
Rudolph
Lewis, Founding Editor
ChickenBones: A Journal
"If you want to learn about motivation and inspiration, don't spend all that money going to workshops and seminars, just go stand at 14th and Broadway, downtown Oakland and watch Marvin X at work. He's Plato teaching on the streets of Oakland."
--Ptahotep A. El (Trace 101)
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Introduction by Ptah Allah El
Preface: A Dialogue—Ishmael Reed, Dr. Nathan Hare, Dr. Rodney D. Coates
Contents
Parables and Fables
Parable of Love 1
Fable of the Donkey 6Fable of the Elephant 7
Parable of the Heart 9Parable of the Black Brotherhood 11
Parable of King Tut 13Parable of the Sacred 16
Parable of the Poor Righteous Teacher 19Parable of the Parrot 21
Parable of a Happy Dope Fiend 23Parable of the Man who loved his Mama 24
Parable of the Madpoet 28Parable of the Witchdoctor 31
Parable of the Preacher’s Wife 37Parable of the Rabbit 40
Parable of the Black Bourgeoisie 43Parable of Iraq 46
Parable of the War that is not War 50Parable of the Colored People 52
Parable of the Man Who Left the Mountain 55Parable of the Girl Ignut of Men 60
Parable of the A Students 63Parable of the Good Children 66
Parable of Man, Beasts, Ancestors, Nature 68Parable of the Drunk Man 70
Parable of the Hustler 73Parable of the Woman at the Well 76
Parable of the Gambler 78Parable of Letting Go 79
Parable on Death of Dreams 80Parable of the Bar 83
Parable of the Table 84Parable of the Bitter Bitch 86
A Dialogue on Bitch 88Parable of the Weather 94
Parable of the City of God 95Parable of the Sick Soul 96
Parable of the Criminal Society 99Parable of Monks and Ministers 102
Parable of the Dirty South 103Parable of the No People 105
Fable of the Black Bird 106
Parable of the Real Woman 108
Parable of the Cell Phone 110
Parable of the Man With the Gun in Hand 114
Parable of the Gangsta 116
Fable of the Rooster and the Hen 118
Parable of the Pit Bull 120
Parable of Black Man and Block Man 122
Fable of the Sleeping Lion 124
Parable of the Baby Carriage 125
Parable of the Woman in the Box 127
Parable of the Fire 129
Parable of the Basket 131
Parable of the Man Who Wanted to Die 133
Parable of Neo-colonialism at University of California, Berkeley 137
Parable of What Right? 142Parable of the Cross and the Lynching Tree 144
Parable of Who Killed Chauncey Bailey 147Parable of the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea 149
A Platonic Negro Dialogue on the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea 153
Parable of the Oakland Police Gang 170
Parable of the Family 172Parable of the North American African as Haitian 176
Parable of Same Sex Marriage, Straight Men, Prostitution 180Parable of Zionism and National Insanity 182
Parable of Obama Drama 186Parable of the Green Revolution 190
Parable of Gang Violence and Political Power 192Parable of who asks the Negro? 196
Parable of broken systems, broken minds 199Parable of Cornel West as angry black man 203
Parable of the Sub-prime Negro 204Parable of the Man Who Talked with Cows 206
Parable of A Day in the Life of Plato Negro 207A Dialogue on White Supremacy 212
Parable of the Grand Denial 217Parable of Imagination 221
Parable of Dope, Mamas and Preachers 231Parable of the Fall of America 234
Parable of Evil in the World 235Parable of American Gangsta J. Edgar Hoover 238
Parable of Sobriety 242Parable of Michael Jackson 246
Parable of Suicide 248Parable of Message to the White Man 250
Parable of the Ash Cloud 258Parable of One Million School Dropouts 260
Parable of Tiger Woods and the Mythology of Dick 264Parable of the Dick Slave 266
Parable of Toxic Love 268Parable of Rape 270
Parable of the Dick and Gun 274Parable of the Mythology of Dick and Pussy 275
Parable of Gay and Lesbian Youth 293Parable of Creativity and Sexuality 300
Parable of the Old Lovers 303Parable of Desirelessness 306
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Comments
We doubt a Marvin X exists! We double doubt there is a Plato Negro!”
—Amiri Baraka
Marvin, when I said I would love you forever and no one else but you I lied. I confess I fell in love with Ted Jones during one of his poetry readings. He promised to take me away to the Sahara deserts. I believed him. I was 20 years old. I didn't know no better, my brother.
I asked Nikki Giovanni, Everly Neal, to organize a fund raiser for me so that I could raise enough money to buy booths for my trek across the dessert with Ted. They laughed after sucking their teeth.... See More
Ted Jones did exist. I made a terrible mistake in my judgement. Tell me, will you take me back after my open heart confession? I am dedicating a special song to you to soften your heart. Please don't let the IRS and Ted Jones come between us.
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