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Nascent Poetic Tribute To Black History Month

Nascent poetic tribute to black history month...
crafted before onset when people of color  
got acknowledged for twenty eight or nine days
depending if leap year occurred. 

Though I yam Caucasian,
rightful to honor most bitter
racist genocidal crime,
nonetheless ovation qua
one non WASPish critter
buzzfeeds kickstarts poetic hitter,
viz quintessential significant contribution
vis a vis rubbish that doth litter
just pass over after me death
as posthumous Jew pitter,
patter one among anonymous wordsmith 
(linkedin to Ashkenazi) 
multitudinous Semitic peoples.

Many unknown dark skinned souls
cruelly abducted, enslaved, lynched... 
wrenched, yanked, and zipped 
out heart of darkness within 
pristine jungles of Africa
bravely fought as non quitter
with ebony melanin to coon sitter,
this asthma feeble attempt
made as thoughtful, rueful, mindful literate
read courtesy sibling, parent, 
guardian or baby sitter
reasonable rhyme aye adorn 
rhythmically snapchat, tweet and twitter.

*****Sapiens with Negroid color
who, despite being human bondage
managed to illuminate, embellish, adorn
worthy contributions to society,
though me Asian garden variety
American (though not so proud),
and civilization since time immemorial
hence, I wanna pay poetic homage
to persons gifted with melanin born
akin to diversity exemplifying gamut
analogous to Indian corn
debased brutally and forlorn
no matter 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
while yours truly with sixty plus shades 
of Caucasian pigment, albeit servile
shamefully linked heritage viz 
precarious, opprobrious, nefarious,...   
Matthew Scott Harris sworn

vengeance against those perpetrators
whereat cultures, histories, languages... 
eradicated courtesy genocide,
nevertheless heroic efforts 
witnessed Underground Railroad 
where a minority escaped,
being branded, 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.

The above smattering examples 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 and/or 
sundry other nation 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 and chicken thing, 
especially encroaching, jumpstarting, outsourcing 
once noble 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 depraved brutish, nasty
and (shortish) Hobbesian simians
wantonly increased desecration.

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
mangrove persons patiently lined up their ducks
and declared as one of the first semi sucks
esse full African American peoples
INDEPENDENCE to be the word,
whence adulation, elation, inspiration echoing 
across ramshackle greensward.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2022




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