a white girl
with blue hair
and black lips
takes a selfie with Pandora's box
across the galaxy
light years away
an alien is pissed off
telepathically crackling
cultural appropriation!
APPROPRIATION
Who said you were unworthy
put that notion in your head
extracting souls expression
forcing theirs on you instead
Who called you undeserving
to convey your deep desires
develop unique passions
lifting zeal forever higher
Appropriate-- and set apart assigning self assertion
Appropriate—apply extraordinary use and purpose
Appropriate-- not admit defeat to vacant coercion
Appropriate---not mirror and just reflect
Appropriate—not drift and simply deflect
(“Appropriation”—personal discovery and embracing of the dynamic structure to inquire, judge, decide and choose)
©Kim van Breda—February 2014
The baren bones lay bare across the fields of alliteration
Unnecessary abstraction leaves the bourgeois man bereft of care
And yet, the obliviously self aware give cause to sight's deprivation
The enigmatic preparation gives many metaphors to compare
You rack your brain, paper tears, from too much stylization
personal interpretation brings to light the common ground, the things we share
But if your minds in disrepair, that's premeditation
Less is lost in coloration, but I don't think we're going there
flotsam and jetsam -
seascape graffito