Hello,
I've been studying Amiri Baraka's poem "Black Art". He wrote this poem during the Black Arts Movement in the 60's, in tune with the black nationalism of the time. I am trying to understand some words and I would be grateful to get some feedback on them:
First of all, I don't know what "wd" is -- "when" ? but what does the letter "d" stand for?
The other words I don't know are: "nickel hearts" ; "out of Jocks" and "girdlemamma":
Thank you for your attention, Laumont.
Black Art (Amiri Baraka)Poems are bullshit unless they are
teeth or trees or lemons piled
on a step. Or black ladies dying
of men leaving nickel hearts
beating them down. Fuck poems
and they are useful, wd they shoot
come at you, love what you are,
breathe like wrestlers, or shudder
strangely after pissing. We want live
words of the hip world live flesh &
coursing blood. Hearts Brains Souls splintering fire. We want poems
like fists beating niggers out of Jocks
or dagger poems in the slimy bellies
of the owner jews. Black poems to smear on girdlemamma mullato bitches
whose brains are red jelly stuck
between 'lizabeth taylor's toes'. (...)