Important announcement
For many years now it has been my great ambition to write a poem that contained a word beginning with F. My Oxford English Dictionary actually lists 3,957,381 words beginning with this letter, but I was not to be so easily satisfied. Nothing but the world-renowned and highly-respected F-word would do for me. Ladies and gentlemen, it gives me now very great pleasure to be able to inform you that my endeavours have met with success. The poem you are about to read does indeed contain this most famous of words. Readers who would prefer to enjoy this word in all its glory without being put to the bother of reading the whole effing poem are kindly requested to proceed directly to the final line where they should be able to locate it without too much difficulty. Readers of a sensitive disposition are advised that they continue at their own risk. Incidentally, I should perhaps add that this poem also contains a word beginning with C. I donīt quite know how that one got in, but I would like to disclaim all responsibility.
Colonisation
Here I am in America, a country as big as myself.
From the swelling breast of the eastern seaboard
to the spine of the Rocky Mountains
it is all mine because I am the first.
No one was here before me.
I have sucked on the nipple of Newfoundland
and drew motherīs milk, milk of the motherland.
I throw out my chest and claim kinship with all this.
All I see is there for the taking
so I go where I please, tread the flanks of hills,
sail the river arteries to the heartlands.
I stride the plains and forests freely
in leather boots and trapperīs fur hat
and a bowie knife with a six-foot blade,
sharp enough to rip the belly out of this country
if she gives me any trouble. Bitch.
Here there is freedom and space to breathe.
Here a man can stretch his arms wide
and be a man. I haul logs.
I turn the soil. I stuff my mouth
with red meat and swallow.
The motherland spreads her legs
round the Gulf of Mexico,
dreaming of new offspring.
I go down to Florida, to the soft,swampy cunt of her.
Now Iīm in. Thereīs oil here somewhere
and I aim to drill it. Fucked if I donīt.
Mike
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