Dark Fruit

Strange Fruit choreography 
speaks to me of seeing 
and smelling 

this strange evil fruit 
of hatred 
and bigotry 
and fear 

and straight white man 
perpetual menace. 

Choreographing trauma 
only infrequently translates words
of DarkHole poems

Rhetoric hoping to carry carrion reek, 
shock of evil awe 
and dark timeless burdens

Terrifying wonder 
as perceived 
within this Strange Fruit DarkView 

Rather than more interior unvoiced feelings 
of profound inhumane disarray, 
denial and division, 
hate climates 
monoculturing supremacy 

Of straight white monotheistically judgmental, 
capitalist movers and shakers,

commodifiers 
and waste disposers
and arms salesmen
prepared to aim at 
semi-domesticated talking animals,
defiant live stock,
breeding stock,
bargain basement slave labor 

Too smart to be trusted
not to seek reparations
and revenge

Strange Dark Fruit,
the enslaving racist face 
frantically encircling 
straight white fascism 
in full flagrant, 
strange southern fruit, 
industrially resilient horror. 

Strange Fruit Anthropocene, 
with polyculturally felt choreography 
of ecopolitical 
disempowering/unenlightened 
monochromatic lack of appropriate appreciation for color, 
spectral circling octaves,
and peak experiences of compassionate 
bipartisan drama

Cooperative intent,
without so much
Patriarchal-Capitalist 
monotheistic
StrangeFruit  
xenophobic trauma.

Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2023

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