As a resident of Schwenksville Boro for five plus years...

rew4er2nail

Intersection upon adventitious
encounter, when first seed of genocide planted

unsuspecting subsequent rapid usurpation

quickly eradicated rightful breed

of what coalesced into thee Americas.

 

I experience stir of echoes haunting

Perkiomen Valley, Pennsylvania,

which lands ceded To William Penn

for a song (and lap dance routine)
courtesy Lenni Lenape peoples.

 

When the concept of land ownership

brokered between Europeans

and indigenous tribes
the latter occupants

oblivious to land acquisition,

(a concept alien

to autochthonous population),

which posed catastrophic disadvantage

upon onset of fatal impact.

 

I too flirt with the cosmology

that no tract upon terra firma

(housing aggregate body of flora and fauna
nsync with resources atop and below
demarcated circumscribed area)
can be rightfully owned.

 

What or who (pray tell)

dispenses the privilege,

whereby an individual

steeped in the construct of capitalism

gains the inalienable right

to purchase blocked off section

of Earthly paradise

(before edenic once isolated

unbroken tremendous expanse

 

of terrain suitable for agriculture such as:
forest, mountain, prairie, river, valley...

snapped up courtesy savvy buyers

née aggressive men with steely resolve

sought to mortgage Mother Nature
for coloninialization, commercialization,

industrialization, or other utilization,

when verdant rolling hills

decreed as prime real estate.

 

I (an American with Semitic genealogy)
dismisses western establishmentarian

credo, diktat, ethos... notion

constituting appropriation of property

(namely securing rightful title

to accrue and retain monies

levied courtesy legal ordinances
or strong arm tactics

exploiting potentially deemed riches

latent within soil (leant) green.

 

Unbeknownst origin of
mine antithetical, atypical,

enigmatical, fantastical, heretical...

viewpoints markedly divergent

from prevalent usurpation
indeed linkedin with fledgling

United States canonical, dogmatical,

geopolitical, and more than

hypothetical manifest destiny.

 

Heartsickness arises pondering

abomination, brutalization, cannibalization,

decimation, eradication, federalization...,

whereby relatively happy go lucky

matrimonial ceremonies bolstered longevity

of some arbitrary tribal nation,
their prime concern constituted
appeasing pantheon of
gods and/or goddesses that populated
as their webbed, wide world

spun one after another generation

 

keeping intact oral traditions

until cultural disaster struck
ferocious deadly blow

severely renting asunder,

profoundly wreaking havoc

upon naively innocent natives

"white man's" duplicity,

hypocrisy, mendacity...

gussied up as one cruel hoax

ousting defenseless native inhabitants

foisting, dislodging, begetting

flagrant eminent domain.

 

  • Author: rew4er2nail (Offline Offline)
  • Published: November 25th, 2022 15:16
  • Category: Sociopolitical
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