it only dawned on my yesterday,
watching a Peter Jackson movie
about the first world war...

in the way that the English
soldiers described the events...

(more soldiers died in
the first world war than
in the second world war...
that's because the second
world war tops the list
via the newly invented
guerrilla tactic of targeting
civilians, or rather,
akin to the Warsaw ghetto
and the Warsaw uprising...
militarizing civilians)...

****... what was i going
to wax into a Tussauds
  ****-bunny?
oh... right...
the comments...

  the British soldiers noted
disparities among the Germans...

Konrad I of Masovia
invited the Teutonic order
to fight off the Prussians...

the British soldiers noted...
the Saxons and the Bavarian
(yes, that's non-plural,
a definite article identifies
this "phenomenon")
         are people akin...
but the Prussians?
masochistic *******...

because the Prussians are not
Germans!
   the Prussians are
akin to the other Baltic ethnic
backgrounds...
akin to the Latvians,
Estonians, Lithuanians...
they're Prussians!
   an independently recognizable
ethnicity...
  that's why Konrad I of Masovia
implored the Teutonic order
to instigate the Northern Crusade
against them!

think... the remnants of the vikings...

mind you, there's another
sub-ethnic group of note...
the Kashubians...
less the Baltic peoples and
more the Pomeranian peoples...
cute puppies...

but who can do a better
pickled Baltic sushi's worth of
herring other than the Danzig folk?
the Kashubians...
Kashubian raw herrings?
munch munch munch...
kudos... much kudos...
yeah... i know... the Picts' smoked
salmon...
   different waters... different fish...

but the Prussians aren't Germans...
the English soldiers in
the trenches noted that,
given a Bavarian and a Saxon
comparison...
Prussians are Prussians...
i don't understand them,
although i share a history with
them...
          the Masovians
                asked the Teutonic Order
to suppress their paganism,
which later extended
to Lithuania...
                        and then:
power corrupts...
                               so there...
but from the looks of it...
back "home" the independence day
march in Warsaw accounted to
around 200,000+ people...
            world war what?
          the celebration of the futile dead
while elsewhere a story of liberation...
  i write "home"... because it is just that...
by now, having lived so long in England...
a mental tattoo...
                       once my grandparents die...
i will have no affiliation to that nation,
other than a bilingual tourist.