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Sep 2018
most people in the western world,
i presuppose, don't have this line
of argument,
and as mich as i'd love to argue for
either side of the propositions...
personally? i can't agree
to market either side's superiority...
say... i really prefer Indian
food to all the other cultures,
****, i have a kitchen with
a powerful array of Indian spices,
a pretty impressive arsenal...
and no... no one can fathom
the aesthetic of male
clinging toward a Turkish
barber...
   i don't care if a woman
cuts my hair and trims my beard...
the Turks are destined
perfectionist of, some would say,
a ******-riddle enterprise...
no matter...
i'll take a Turk to cut and trim my
beard over come English
**** fiddler...
         forget it,
a Turk comes prior to an English
******...
   the end.
    which brings me to the debate
concerning nationalism...
see... i'm stretched...
really, really stretched to mind both
sides of the debate...
i grew up in England,
in the multicultural La La Land...
i'm used to it,
but whenever i visit my grandparents
once or twice a year...
a nausea hits me...
   i wasn't born in either Warsaw
or Krakow...
   not many tourists visit my town...
a mix-raced child,
devil hell spawn of some Polish woman
and an African is like:
hell ping pong central
with the index finger...
     which brings to that "other" point...
you ever go back to
a monolithic...
****, wrong word...
   mono-.... mono-...
what's the correct word...
              ah! a homogenous society?
while the old outsiders
are a bunch of travelers at
the town's market on a Saturday,
speaking broken Polish?
     no, i guess the correct answer
is no...
     there's a nausea sensation,
you start feeling that every potential
romantic suitor is:
****** RED! ALERT!
   ******! like you're about
to **** your cousin or something...
i can't help but feed off this crap...
after all... the Polacks are
nomads no. 2, just shy of the Jews...
being nomads no. 1...
Boston to the Irish,
Chicago to the Polacks...
   but these people arguing
for nationalism,
an a homogenous population,
their monochromatic basis points
of argument...
they have been to places where
the collective minorities
are the majority?
  they have, right?
   all the small town rumor spreading,
the refocused attention
away from celebrity culture
and focusing on the friends,
and neighbors?
          i drink, my fault, my pleasure,
my vanity, my problem...
do you think the people
making their nationalistic
arguments, true, fair points...
could adapt to a homogenous society
so quickly and easily as
their arguments attaching
themselves to the vagueness
of the aether?
i'm neither pro nor con
either side of the argument...
   but having grown up in a society
with such a peacock rainbow of
Amazonian butterflies on show...
going back to a homogenous
society...
    it's gut-wrenching...
           it doesn't become
the revamped acquired norm within
a generation...
  impossible...
            like with interracial
marriages...
      the dominant genes disappear
in the third generation...
parents... no chance...
children... it's still there...
grandchildren... one side overpower the over...
great-grandchildren...
the freaks come out...
but i'm telling you...
if you've grown up in a hegemony
of cultures, races etc...
you'll find a homogenous
society...
     a bit dizzy...
a bit ****** riddled by superstition /
unhealthy bias on the basis
of the focus of an argument...

both sides are correct,
but both sides are also wrong,
personally,
going back,
and being a ****** among so many
other, Polacks?
    i start to imagine myself
as a faceless man,
a black hole event...
******* at a depth that's
without one.
Mateuš Conrad
Written by
Mateuš Conrad  36/M/Essex (England)
(36/M/Essex (England))   
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