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The English language

steals away

at your very heart

it was

seized by foreign hands

in their taking of foreign lands

they never wore pyjamas

until they renamed it India

and there never were shenanigans

before Ireland suffered similar

we say chow down oftentimes

and never think it over

of the Opium that caused a war

sailing to Fuzhou from Dover

or of those solemn slaves

sold into their shackled sauna

from West Africa where that yellow

fruit was always called banana

and across Africa to the East

the collabo certainly happened

In North and South Sudan or Kenya

where the Jenga is often flattened

the boomerang seems to circle

and find it’s way back home

the Aboriginals knew that

when the Empire took

(and went)

back to it’s throne.

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