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My Nascent Poetic Tribute To Black History Month
My Nascent Poetic Tribute To Black History Month
 
though I yam Caucasian, 
   tis rightful to honor that most bitter
racist genocidal crime 
   nonetheless ovation qua 
   quintessential significant contribution 
   vis a vis that doth litter
   many anonymous multitudinous peoples 
   many unknown dark skinned souls 
   bravely fought as non quitter 
with melanin so coon sitter  
   this asthma feeble attempt 
   made to mind of literate 
   parent, guardian or sitter
adorn aye rhythmically twitter 
    
   to Homo Sapiens with Negroid color 
   who, despite being human bondage 
   managed to adorn
   worthy contributions to society,
 
though an American (though not so proud)
   and civilization since time immemorial
   hence, I wanna pay poetic homage 
   to persons born 
akin to diversity exemplifying gamut 
 
   analogous to Indian corn
   debased brutally and forlorn
   and raised in cornucopia horn 
of plenty with rare serf tenderness
 
whipped by wicked task masters 
   from the crack of morn, 
   aye cannot fathom why 
   a great proportion of humanity 
 
must struggle on scraps of subsistence
viz with fifty plus shades of chocolate 
   vile shamefully opprobrious sworn
   vengeance toward those 
via heroic efforts escaped, 
   manacled, tortured, et cetera history 
   as slaves an existence 
until...pacified family dislocated 
   sans rent asunder, ripped and torn.
 
Once a proud family akin to Brady
bunch, now brutally, nasty 
   and short lived poorly destitute 
   (case in point) like Haiti - 
once a nation extant with cultural finery 
   insidiously raped \"Lady\"
lacerated odiously robbing 
   unique peoples as owners didst slay
   practically naked \"Primates\" 
   encaged like wild animals in zoos
   culturally robbed while 
   abhorrently marched in ones and twos
   shredded souls without shoes 
   (analogous to persecuted Jews) 
   of singular ambition to break shackles 
   though tightly fused
to life as they chose.
this just one example of many peoples 
   UNFAIRLY subjected 
to subservience and exempt 
   from enjoying the fruits of their labor.
January twelfth two thousand and ten
(original date this communique writ then 
kept wedged where in no wise 
 bore visual witness 
 
 vis a vis near annihilation and destruction 
 of African, Haitian, South American, et cetera nations
whereby countless/ nameless individuals 
 
   e’en the strongest Herculean type men
   crushed by humungous slabs of 
   building facades practically 
   demolishing every creation 
since this island settled, which 
   indigenous tribes sought safety 
   in any geologic den
   seeking solace and salvation 
 
   from wrath of nature 
   by paying obeisance via oblation 
perhaps giving credence to clear water 
   in tandem with rooster and hen
   that laid a golden egg, especially 
   as encroaching savages affected violation
particularly when Europeans 
   foisted forfeiture of land 
 
   with primitive implement like pen
   no matter that travesty, trickery, mockery, 
   et cetera wrought humiliation
pleading invaders to forsake 
 
   such actions that rent asunder 
   culture beseeched god when
   these brutish, nasty 
   and (shortish) Hobbesian simians 
   to cease desecration
yet the peoples of this dominion rose 
   from the ashes like the phoenix like bird
   no mattered genetic pool underwent 
   white washing from scouring influx
from western thumping proselytizers, 
   which alien beliefs hard to swallow like curd
   basically bribery (with lustrous trinkets) 
   ah those coveted legal tender
 
upon emancipation proclamation cessation
   to sell men, women and for x amount of bucks 
akin to the soundcloud winged fowl clucks
foisted/ forced the unpleasant alternative 
   (wanton slaughter) to be clearly heard
   yet within the very fiber of tropical 
   man grove persons patiently 
   lined up their ducks
and declared as one of the first 
   african american peoples 
   INDEPENDENCE to be the word
   whence adulation, elation, inspiration
echoing across ramshackle greensward.