Monday, March 12, 2012

History Lesson

This place is where Manifest Destiny pulled up, finally, the last spot where they could tell the regular people to fuck off, this ain't yours anymore. It's ours.
The end of the Oregon Trail..
Gaston drained the sacred lake, the Wappatoo, so he could grow onions.
Then he moved to Portland.
Got fucked on the Willamette Valley Line Railroad, swindled and ass kicked he came here, where the other ones that came over those mountains alive but were too late for the Willamette Valley, they came here.
Killed everything they could
"Reclaimed the Land"
White men said they could and that was true, they could
Enslaved the Chinese
Japanese
Indians
White men on a mission

Son of a Bitch
How the fuck did I land here
Today, we're having a hurricane, with snow
Probably, later, it will rain fire

2 comments:

  1. Cannot recall you writing poetry before. This one and the last I like a lot. Manifest Destiny seems even more big headed a notion than ever.

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  2. I like it better than all the long bullshit stories and lies I tell

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