What You So! (1989) - Sun Ra Poem

Sun Ra's recitation from the song Of Invisible Them

What You So! (1989)

This today is a judgement day
It is more likely, examination day.
A ruler rules the judgement be
This day to judge and examine
Today is examination day
Too long delayed but yet
Are you too blind to the evils of non-discrimination
That you dare not understand?
Are you so willfully ignorant of what you should be;
That you think you are only what others say you are,
Yet perhaps you fail to realize
That what you are
you are
And thus so.
Thusly, if what you reap is what you so
What you reap is what you are:
Amen!
Because what you 'am' is what you be
And what you is, you am
And what you be, you are
If what you are is what you so.

SUN RA The Immeasurable Equation
The Collected Poetry and Prose compiled and edited by
James L. Wolf and Hartmut Geerken
Waitawhile (2005) p. 422