in tightly-wrought comic surrealism; "The revolution will not show you pictures of Nixon blowing a bugle and leading a charge by John Mitchell, General Abrams and Spiro Agnew to eat hog maws confiscated from a Harlem sanctuary." But it is as much his delivery, his voice impassioned but not quite righteous, that electrifies the poem.Scott-Heron's influence is evident in a generation of young British spoken word poets and performers who have emerged with a political agenda.
from The Guardian: What's poetry's role in protest politics?
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