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Re: Roots Amarchy by John Moore

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Erminia

I am glad that you like the poem. I am happy for you to translate it,
but please contact me if it is published and let me have a copy.

Thanks!

John


Date sent:      	Wed, 20 Oct 1999 01:03:02 +0100
Subject:        	Re: Roots Amarchy  by John Moore
From:           	"erminia" <[log in to unmask]>
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>     I think this poem is great. I will  translate it and have it
>     published in Italian. Will I benefit of the author's permission?
>     (early morning wonders).
>
>
>      Roots Anarchy
>     Do you remember
>
>                                    Burning Spear's
>
>                                    'Days of Slavery'
>
>                                    with its refrain
>
>
>
>     'Do you remember             the
>     days of slavery?'
>
>
>
>
>
>     Do you then remember
>
>                                    your history
>
>                                    your identity
>
>                                    as an Ethiopian
>
>                                    as a free individual
>
>                                    in primal Ethiopia
>
>
>
>                                    in these             days of
>                                    slavery?
>
>
>
>
>
>     Or do you then remember
>
>                                    that all labour
>
>                                    is forced labour
>
>                                    that all labour
>
>                                    is hard labour
>
>                                    that then as now
>
>                                    we all live in
>
>
>
>                                    the
>                                    days of slavery?
>
>
>
>
>
>     Do you remember
>
>                                    the empire
>
>
>
>                                    (Latin im-, upon, over
>
>                                    parare, to make ready, order
>
>
>
>                                    (...the enlarging
>
>                                    of the bounds of
>
>                                    Human Empire,
>
>                                    to the effecting of
>
>                                    all things possible
>
>
>
>                                    (the endeavour to
>
>                                    establish and extend
>
>                                    the power and dominion
>
>                                    of the human race itself
>
>                                    over the universe
>
>
>
>                                    F. Bacon
>
>
>
>                                    in these
>                                    days of slavery?
>
>
>
>
>
>     Do you remember
>
>                                    'Rule Britannia'
>
>                                    with its refrain
>
>                                    'Britons
>
>                                    nevereverever
>
>                                    shall be slaves'
>
>
>
>                                    that rising hysterical
>
>                                    emphatic
>
>                                    nevereverever
>
>
>
>                                    Never?
>
>                                    never ever?
>
>                                    never ever ever?
>
>
>
>                                    Not even in
>
>
>
>                                    the
>                                    days of slavery?
>
>
>
>
>
>     Do you remember
>
>                                    your roots, slave
>
>
>
>                                    (Greek, slave
>
>                                    a Slav
>
>                                    a Slavonian captive)
>
>
>
>                                    living in captivity
>
>                                    in the house of bondage
>
>                                    in the house of pain
>
>                                    your identity
>
>                                    your freedom
>
>                                    your autonomy
>
>                                    your creativity
>
>                                    your gifts
>
>                                    your uniqueness
>
>                                    your difference
>
>                                    your will
>
>                                    your desire
>
>                                    erased
>
>                                    in
>
>
>
>                                    the
>                                    days of slavery?
>
>
>
>
>
>     Do you remember
>
>                                    that in chattel slavery
>
>                                    the chattel,
>
>                                    dispossessed,
>
>                                    becomes
>
>                                    a possession
>
>                                    and
>
>                                    belongs to
>
>                                    the master
>
>
>
>                                    but in wage slavery
>
>                                    the worker,
>
>                                    dispossessed,
>
>                                    becomes
>
>                                    a possession
>
>                                    who can choose
>
>                                    to belong to
>
>                                    as many masters
>
>                                    as desired
>
>                                    and call that freedom
>
>                                    in
>
>
>
>
>
>                                    the
>                                    days of slavery?
>
>
>
>
>
>     Do you remember
>
>                                    that
>
>                                    (Neither slavery nor involuntary
>                                    servitude,
>
>                                    except as a punishment for crime,
>
>                                    whereof the party shall have been
>                                    duly convicted,
>
>                                    shall exist in the United States,
>
>                                    or any place subject to their
>                                    jurisdiction
>
>
>
>                                    I3th Amendment, US Constitution
>
>
>
>                                    but
>
>                                    the will to slavery or voluntary
>                                    servitude
>
>                                    shall exist
>
>                                    in every place subject to
>                                    jurisdiction
>
>
>
>                                    (It is the people who enslave
>                                    themselves,
>
>                                    who cut their own throats:
>
>                                    who having the choice
>
>                                    of being vassals or freemen,
>
>                                    reject their liberty,
>
>                                    and submit to the yoke,
>
>                                    who consent to their own evil,
>
>                                    or rather procure it
>
>
>
>                                    (Let us then conjecture ...
>
>                                    how this obstinate desire of
>                                    slavery
>
>                                    has so far taken root,
>
>                                    that it would seem
>
>                                    at present
>
>                                    the love itself of liberty
>
>                                    were not so natural
>
>
>
>                                    La Boetie, Discourse on Voluntary
>                                    Servitude
>
>
>
>                                    in these
>                                    days of slavery?
>
>
>
>
>
>     Do you remember
>
>                                    the need to remember
>
>
>
>                                    (It is incredible,
>
>                                    how suddenly the people,
>
>                                    the moment they are enslaved,
>
>                                    fall into so profound a
>                                    forgetfulness
>
>                                    of their freedom,
>
>                                    that it is not possible for them
>
>                                    to rouse themselves up
>
>                                    to regain it,
>
>                                    serving so easily and willingly,
>
>                                    that one who sees them
>
>                                    might be tempted to say,
>
>                                    that they had not lost their
>                                    liberty.
>
>                                    but their servitude
>
>
>
>                                    It is true,
>
>                                    at first, they serve by constraint,
>
>                                    subdued by force;
>
>                                    but those who come afterwards,
>
>                                    having never seen liberty,
>
>                                    and not knowing what it is,
>
>                                    obey without regret,
>
>                                    and do willingly
>
>                                    that which their fathers
>
>                                    did by constraint
>
>
>
>                                    So it is,
>
>                                    that when men are born under the
>                                    yoke,
>
>                                    and afterwards brought up and
>
>                                    educated in slavery,
>
>                                    without looking forward,
>
>                                    contenting themselves to live
>
>                                    in the condition in which they were
>                                    born,
>
>                                    and thinking they have no right
>
>                                    or other good but what they found
>                                    at first,
>
>                                    they look upon the state of their
>                                    birth
>
>                                    as their natural state
>
>
>
>                                    La Boetie
>
>
>
>                                    in the
>                                    days of slavery?
>
>
>
>
>
>     Do you remember
>
>                                    how Power
>
>                                    uproots us
>
>                                    and carries us away
>
>                                    into captivity
>
>                                    /captivation
>
>                                    /deprivation
>
>
>
>                                    exhausting
>
>                                    decentring
>
>                                    unbalancing
>
>                                    entangling
>
>                                    us
>
>
>
>                                    in distractions and diversions
>
>                                    in word-drunkenness and
>                                    mind-wandering
>
>
>
>                                    stunting imagination
>
>                                    stymieing creativity
>
>                                    deforming activity
>
>
>
>                                    through
>
>                                    inhibition
>
>                                    as much as
>
>                                    prohibition
>
>
>
>                                    until we become
>
>                                    mere things
>
>                                    lost in things
>
>                                    lost in a world of things
>
>
>
>                                    in the
>                                    days of slavery?
>
>
>
>
>
>     Do you remember
>
>                                    your roots
>
>                                    your rootedness
>
>                                    in the here and now
>
>                                    in the biological centre of the
>                                    individual (Nietzsche)
>
>                                    (existence precedes essence
>                                    (Sartre)
>
>                                    in my one flesh
>
>                                    in the creative nothing,
>
>                                    the nothing out of which I myself
>                                    as creator
>
>                                    create everything (Stirner)
>
>                                    in original mind
>
>                                    in visionary imagination
>
>                                    (the imagination of the
>                                    insurrection
>
>                                    in energy
>
>                                    (energy is eternal delight (Blake)
>
>                                    in the marvellous
>
>                                    in creative spontaneity & creative
>                                    spontaneity
>
>                                    in the web of life
>
>                                    in the ebbs and flows
>
>                                    in anarchy
>
>
>
>                                    Lacking this memory
>
>                                    this knowledge
>
>                                    this rootedness
>
>                                    practice errs
>
>                                    insurgency fails
>
>
>
>                                    so do not forget
>
>
>
>                                    To travel the
>
>                                    roads to freedom
>
>                                    is to trace
>
>                                    the routes to recovery
>
>                                    roots recovery
>
>                                    the recovery of roots
>
>
>
>                                    the restoration of equilibrium
>
>
>
>                                    (There are always some ...
>
>                                    who are sensible of the weight of
>                                    the yoke
>
>                                    and cannot refrain from throwing it
>                                    off,
>
>                                    who can never become tame in
>                                    subjection,
>
>                                    but  ... cannot help reflecting
>
>                                    on their natural privileges, and
>                                    remembering
>
>                                    their predecessors and former
>                                    condition
>
>
>
>                                    These are the men who
>
>                                    having clear understandings,
>
>                                    and sharp sighted wits,
>
>                                    are not satisfied with the bulk of
>                                    the people,
>
>                                    in looking only where they step,
>
>                                    but likewise take a view of
>
>                                    what is before and behind them,
>
>                                    and recall the memory of things
>                                    past
>
>                                    to compare with the present,
>
>                                    and make a judgment of the future
>
>
>
>                                    These men,
>
>                                    were liberty entirely lost and out
>                                    of the world,
>
>                                    conceiving it,
>
>                                    and finding it in their own minds,
>
>                                    and charmed with its lovely image,
>
>                                    could never relish servitude,
>
>                                    how finely soever it might be
>                                    dressed up
>
>
>
>                                    La Boetie
>
>
>
>                                    These are
>
>                                    the uncontrollables
>
>                                    the men and women
>
>                                    who
>
>                                    create the impossible
>
>                                    those for whom the
>
>                                    thousand flowering
>
>                                    micro-insurrections
>
>                                    of everyday life
>
>                                    are not enough,
>
>                                    and whose projects
>
>                                    aim to eradicate
>
>                                    Power in all its forms
>
>                                    and burn the productive forces
>
>                                    in their quest
>
>                                    to recover
>
>                                    their roots
>
>
>
>                                    in these
>                                           days of slavery?
>
>
>
>
>
>     Do you remember
>
>                                    that you are living in
>
>                                    the world of living objects
>
>                                    that you are a living object
>
>                                    until you rebel
>
>                                    and overthrow power and dominion
>
>                                    that these are still
>
>
>
>                                    the
>                                    days of slavery?
>
>
>
>     John Moore
>
>




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