books
mebbe ya know how it is with books
like women an men or men an women
ya pick em up
an try em out
they capture yer attention
some ya hadnt a fuckin clue wha it was ya were thinkin
an dropped em like a
handful of attractive wicked nettles slight
invisible needles stuck in yer skin irritatin
thats how books were to him
intriguin
he gave em half-a-chance to despoil their intrigue on their own
he was readin Open Veins -- more
notorious an eyewidenin if he said it that way
-- than completing the title
of Latin America because the United States didnt give a rats
ass about its southern hemisphere any more than Europe cared for Africa except to steal what they could did he say steal No that
was incorrect Rape under their heels an large-bore weaponry their Imperial jurisdicktion he didnt believe
their moral compasses kicked in or questioned Should I because I can? it was answered centuries ago answered racially religiously
an if the indigenous people were worth their salt wouldnt their God or
Gods have stopped them it remained hard
on him to imagine these white people beget an raised children an yet fucked to
the eyeballs other peoples children because they deemed them lesser an undeserving
when he said he was reading Open
Veins he couldnt help but watch their
salacious reactions craven unfurl like coloured flowers to the warm
sunlight
he restrained himself to explain
an let them do the talking
Was it about suicide
No Genocide
they didnt get it or even cared(they may have knew him too well)
an their interest waned
Wait Wait Dont you want to hear
No they didnt
they didnt even want to play the
thought experiment that occurred to him three pages into the book
Imperialism
for all he knew they may have
thought thats what European countries did
never America or Americans
who may have been culled or tamed
if Inians had killed the late 16th Century European intruders as
soon as they set foot in the Atlantic Oceans shallows
slaughtered them wholesale
no good deed goes unpunished
he would have wondered outloud to
their diminishing backs as they walked away the Louisiana Purchase the whole of Manifest Destiny: Texas acquired during
the American-Mexican War(despite our preference of the Mexican-American War a tepid suggestion that Mexico initiated the
conflict -- but alas Conquerors write History) the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo acquiring the whole of California the overthrown of Hawaiis Queen Lili’
uokalani the Philippine-American War ditto Nothing to see here Move it along
so much of America revolves
around Its seeing and unseeing were particularly
adept(entitled)
an seemingly particularly gutless
his thought experiment came as he
read Galeano and wondered where does Imperialism go when its exporting becomes
difficult -- wouldnt it internalise itself: The strength of
the imperialist system as a whole rests on the necessary inequality of its
parts . . . the oppressor . . . gets steadily richer in absolute terms -- and
much more so in relative terms -- through the dynamics of growing disparity
huh if that didnt sound like the inequality
occurring inside the United States he didnt know what did
yet he couldnt sway a thoughtful
or curious discussion outright because he was talking(or braying) at the backs
of his departing friends and neighbours who apparently hadnt the time(or luxury)
to hear or hazard to debate refute or agree with his perception(argument)
books
its too bad he couldnt magically incite
one to life
probably because if he did he would
seek out more and more books and one at a time flip them into existence and
they would terminally supplant those earthlings he once struggled very hard to
encourage befriend and talk with
hed have to be very careful to
turn more than a few Romance novels to assure himself carnal pleasures
yes sex occurs in the brain
but its really zesty when it
happens to ones body
Lights!
Cameras!
Mirrors!
Action!
1330, Friday,
8 1. 16
2255, Friday,
8 1. 16 (went 333,555 in Digger
to-day)
