LOVE OF LITERATURE AND HISTORY
Written by JC Hughes (aka C Hues)
July 18, 2025
Surround yourself with yes men---
Now that's Affirmative Action.
Hire less women and lesser men.
Great---as misogyny gains traction.
I'm an optimist.
I hope I'm never hopeful.
I've faith in bad faith.
Believe who you want to hear---
Your cult of personality.
He commits crimes while spreading fear.
But trade truth for his fallacy.
I'm an optimist.
I hope I'm never hopeful.
I've faith in bad faith.
Written by JC Hughes (aka C Hues)
July 4, 2025
A billion bucks on fireworks
But not a cent on reparations
Birth of labor in the dark
Find freedom in illuminations
People perfecting performances
While workers "live" in trepidation
Reap rewards the other sows
Their pain becomes your decoration.
REFERENCES: Why Do We Celebrate July 4 With Fireworks? The Independence Day tradition dates nearly as far back as the country’s beginning and was proposed by one of the Founding Fathers. Sarah Pruitt. Published July 3, 2019; Last updated June 30, 2025. Accessed July 4, 2025. History.com https://www.history.com/articles/july-4-fireworks-independence-day-john-adams
Written by JC Hughes (aka C Hues)
July 4, 2025
I was born free
But tethered to chains
I was born black
But with white in my veins
I was born wise
But subject to fools
I was born smart
But rejected the rules
I was born blue
But told to bring joy
I was born man
But nicknamed "boy"
I was born again
But saw through the sin.
Written by JC Hughes (aka C Hues)
July 3, 2025
Gehenna translated well.
Please don't damn me, loving God.
I am saved from hateful hell.
Just as July without hail,
The child is without the rod.
Gehenna translated well.
Some days I wake up and wail---
Fear from what's beyond the sod.
I am saved from hateful hell.
Don't torture me, for I hail,
Misinterpret you, and laud.
Gehenna translated well.
Jonah ain't defy the whale.
Jesus shocked with bread and cod.
Gehenna translated well.
I am saved from hateful hell.
Written by JC Hughes (aka C Hues)
July 1, 2025
Gigantic? Too big.
Rely on one syllable.
Each word used is HUGE.
Again, speak so stupidly---
To make America grate.
Written by JC Hughes (aka C Hues)
June 21, 2025
They'll give you their blood
But act as vampire
They'll burn down your home
But hose you with ire
They'll hand down their genes
Yet steal your fashion
They'll copy your songs
But distill your passion
They'll make you mulatto
But sell you as nigger
They'll dance on your grave
Then frame you the digger
You know life's so fair---
Always to the fairest.
Written by JC Hughes (aka C Hues)
June 10, 2025
Each week, we see the flex of the strongman.
Divide children from parents; detain the wrong man.
The convict king rules without rules.
The only thing they teach is that they run up in your schools.
Your compassion and empathy are traits to be admired---
If Jesus worked for you, he'd be the first to be fired.
In New York, the law couldn't use the word "rape"---
But the judge said Donald did the same, and he admitted it on tape.
Your supporters storm DC and vehemently riot,
And those with buyer's remorse---we're supposed to buy it?
And you say the protests in Los Angeles are lawless?
Thank God for Trump, who will always be flawless.
Written by JC Hughes (aka C Hues)
June 5, 2025
An Afro---you're a rebel.
Rock dreads---now you're a thug.
Corn Rows---Column: Devil.
Wear weave---don't show your mug.
Straight hair---it can't be yours!
Good God, you're being bougie.
And now you cut it short---
Must be on active duty.
I'm glad that we can't win---
Yet make us play the game.
That "white" man has "black" hair!
Still think we look the same?
Written by JC Hughes (aka C Hues)
June 5, 2025
Beautiful bracelets are adorned:
Long legs let loose---you're Rhino Horned.
The Kenyan princess pierces through
With Mallet Smash; leg grabs she threw.
Skin of bronze but heart of gold---
Swiftly strikes with Spinning Scythe.
Sky blue eyes; bangs white and bold---
She always makes friends from a fight.
REFERENCES: Elena. Street Fighter 6. Capcom.
Written by JC Hughes (aka C Hues)
June 3, 2025
If blacks be born of water,
We will be born again.
But blacks be born of white---
Blame Jezebel for sin.
When white man want the manna,
The black man get the scraps.
But black man build your fortune---
All across the maps.
Black wealth was envied deep---
From Tulsa to PG.
Physician, lawyer, engineer:
To be elite and free.
To be elite and free---
Such a blessing being black.
We build rich towns, you tear ours down.
Yet crime is on our back?
REFERENCES: THE HOLY BIBLE. KING JAMES VERSION. KAPPA BOOK PUBLISHERS, LLC. GOSPEL OF JOHN, CHAPTERS 2-6.