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Celebrating the benefits of colonization Buckets of blood will never suffice To match the bloodbath of Columbus genocide By appointment of a Queen, a King and a Lord One of our ‘civilized’ gold fever viral spells I presume… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Estates of Emergency Gallery
The moment of ultimate vanity When the heron spreads its wings In a seemingly effortless rise Does he contemplate his image Reflected in the mirror of a muddy river Does he think he is awkward or ugly Or, looking down at the crawling creatures Wants to cry aloud ‘here comes the king!’ If wasn’t for […]
And the Thames it has flowed for aeons It saw the Fire and it slaked the Plague And weathered the Blitz wave after wave But in the history of the City of London Never was a healthy population quarantined All economic activity brought to a standstill Who is king in this realm of fears ? […]
Every man is king in his own castle Happiness is not an incontrovertible rule We find sunshine in our own sunny spots Ghana was once called the gold coast A name that betrayed the purpose of the colons Before then, it was a powerful empire in its own name Photo Hugh Ardoin Africa by Any […]