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Nov 2018
unlike other, "wise" sayings...
this is not exactly a saying,
but an observed fact...

   the English can calm down...
the EU migrants are
returning home,
   don't worry...
you can have your Commonwealth
post-colonial multicultural
society once more...
no more zeppelins will plague
the skies,
don't worry...
the Polaks are returning
home...
you can have your Turkish kebab
and Lebanese falafel houses
back... chill...

(by god, i sometimes wish it was
sooner, spare the people
the native's grievances about
thinking of the fatherland,
like they had it forever,
uninterrupted)...

see... one of the major traits
of an immigrant population of Polaks?
the one i learned?
    divided we stand,
   united we fall
...
    oh yeah... massive theme of what
happens when Polaks emigrate...
don't  trust other Polaks
overseas...
    if you want to succeed...
wholly integrate,
   cut yourself from contact from
other Polaks...
    
        outside of the homeland?
we're not really... homely...
sure... some will congregate...
some... but the majority of us are like...
well... not even like Jews...
secular Yids...
                            sure... i still speak
the mother tongue...
       why would i give it up to begin with?
see that's the problem with
home-grown terrorism ...

   i sometimes feel sorry for these
poor wankers...
    British born, British bred...
i know the stereotype...
parents from Pakistan, or Iran,
or Egypt, wherever...
British born, British bred...
not sure about the breeding part...
but sure, sure, British born...

i blame their parents...
  honest to god, they become radicalized
and speak the odd Arabic word
with an east London accent...
the ******* ummah and what not...
but ask them to speak an entire
sentence in Arabic?
                       deathly silence...

Polaks don't exactly form communities
overseas,
unless you're talking about
the World War II R.A.F. veterans,
or soldiers from Anders' Army...
                but that's trans-generational...

we're a chameleon emigrant nation...
well... now that the homeland is back...
we can ******* to wherever we came
from...
    lucky for me... i'm a dual-national,
so i can ******* backwards
and forwards.
Mateuš Conrad
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Mateuš Conrad  36/M/Essex (England)
(36/M/Essex (England))   
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