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Poems

Mateuš Conrad  Oct 23
trade
Adonai: give my heart unto this rage!
you usurped my original: pagan, ontology...
i will not succumb to your Christian
unwavering ways:
not via the constitution of the American
baptism...
no!                imagine me thinking:
what is...                trade...
the slave... trade...
                           slavic: like all Slavic
people including: the ******* Soviets
were your... *******... subordinates?
we a we: competed with inferior technologies
and
beat you into orbit before you made
Hollywood of the moon... since never:
have the Germanic peoples of:
England is actually a part of Scandinavia:
like Denmark is a part of Europe, continental...
stylos.. remarks?!
you ******* *****...
you obligirent... *******... *****...
slave... trade... trans-Atlantic...
so... trade...
did the Europeans land ashore the African
continent... and wiped out the entire
human population, African hierarchies... aside?
did.. "we"?
i thought "we" left the kings in their nergo
harems all privy and ******* satisfied...
trade...
who traded with who?
trade imparts the logic of:
trade imparts the logic of...
so we resolved the Q via Mozart for a Coltrane...
and now what?
the slaves who rose
in the aftermath are no richer than
their former KUNGS ZON AFRIZA?!
trade...
African tribal lords traded retards and
any muscle for ******* violins
they would never ever play nor their women
to become courtesans...
trade... it's not a ******* cul de sac
you ******* of agenda politico
of narrative:
               adonai... send me nightmares
before i ******* explode with the furor
of Elijah of Elzeikeil...
     traded... since we? as Europeans...
wiped out the eniterity of Africa
and left it: barren: desperate seeking
humanoids... a savannah... did we?
were anyh Slavs involved?
trading...
             there are ruling parties of Europe...
houses... familiar names..
there are equally...
notable Ickwebo Nigerian *******:
potentials... of namesakes...
not ***** in prison types...
   trade...
           who caught those living...
breathing... *******...
                      who?
didn't the powerholders of Africa
hold the: trade... i mean key and keyhole...
      so you *******... want to damage me!
me!
for **** occupation of Poland
the Communist mind bend of Poland...
and now this?!
this polytheistic Hindu ******* choke!
you polyglot haven of rancid spices...
you... ******* ugh: of ugly...
you cosmopolitan myrch...

   the slave trade existeted with and without
your allowance...
African kings traded...
retards of hard arsenal muscle
and metal for...                        silk...
maybe... rubber...        you ******* ****** *****...
trade your people and blame other people:
but they only picked cotton...
they weren't coal miners...
you ******* start coal mining
or i call you ****-irish! savvy?!

trade... by trade it implies...
no pyramids... no leftovers...
just lions and gaxelles...
so Africa... after the slave trade...
became an Antartic: ******* Savannah?!
right?!
mein schtortz!
poniemieckileb!

  **** your globalist propaganda!
**** your orientanting the space
surrounding the ground space safe
of the geometry of square!

slave trade... ha ha!
with Idi Amin... ha ha!
Alan McClure Dec 2010
I was walking on the seashore when I heard a fearful cry
I looked out across the water where a man was drifting by
"You've got to help!" he shouted, "There's a lifebelt in your reach,
"If you throw it to me quickly I'll get back onto the Beach!"
I hastily began to do exactly as he said
When a little word of warning made its way into my head.

"You reckon this will help," I said, "that is what you believe,
"But to trust short-term solutions here is hopelessly naive.
"You think the belt will save you, and for now maybe it would
"But to teach a faulty lesson here could do more harm than good
"You want something for nothing and that just is not the way
"In the sophisticated economic climate of today -
"You need trade!  You need trade, not aid
"You need trade!  I can't help until you've paid.
"You say that you're in trouble and my help is all you need
"But a culture of dependency is all that it would breed!"

"What's wrong with you, you maniac?" he answered with a yell,
"I'm drowning in the ocean and there's nothing here to sell!
"We can talk about your theories when I'm back upon the shore
"Now just throw the ****** life-belt out, I beg you, I implore!
"You have it in your power and you know that if you can
"You've a moral obligation to assist your fellow man!"

I told him, "You are selfish!  This is difficult for me,
"D'you think a drowning person is a pleasant thing to see?
"You shouldn't be in the water if you haven't learned to swim!"
He said "You no-good lousy *******, it was you who pushed me in!"
Well this kind of moral blackmail made me look at him, aghast
And say, "There really is no virtue here in dwelling on the past,
"You need trade!  You need trade, not aid
"You need trade!  I can't help until you've paid.
"You say that you're in trouble and my help is all you need
"But a culture of dependency is all that it would breed!"

"Don't be so pessimistic," I advised him, "you are rich!
"The sea in which you're drowning must be lowping full of fish!"
"If that's what you're relying on," he said, "to judge my wealth,
"Then you know that I have nothing, 'cos you caught them all yourself!"
I said, "Well, you can't argue with the laws of competition
"You were wasting time by drowning when you should have been out fishin'!"

When finally he died I said, "My brother, I will miss you,
"But maybe more importantly, you've highlighted an issue:
"Drowning is a problem, and believe me, now you're gone,
"I'll be on the phone to Geldof, Ultravox and Elton John.
"We'll organise a concert so that everyone can see
"That drowning is a menace, we should make it history!
"Using trade!  Using trade, not aid,
"Good, free trade, the grestest plan we've ever made,
"You say that you're in trouble and my help is all you need,
"But a culture of dependency's a rotten thing to breed!"