Columbus Day Poem by Ima Ryma

Columbus Day

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We 'celebrate' Columbus Day,
Named for a guy who came by ship,
Never to touch the U.S.A.
Pretty much on an ego trip.
Catholic Knights of Columbus
Lobbied Congress and F.D.R
To stick the day on all of us
For immigrants who were and are.
The old and new worlds did not merge
In too much human harmony.
Those indigenous felt the purge
From immigrant brutality.

Columbus sailed off into fate -
Nothing for us to celebrate.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
David Mclansky 14 January 2013

We bargained hard for Mississippi To be the Country line, Iowa was furious And said the West was mine, No one wanted Florida Except the Seminole, A land of snakes and crocodiles, If the truth be told; The Mexicans waged a brutal war Against The Gathering of Tribes, They had a tiff with Ferdinand When Cochise refused a bribe; Marijuana became the chief export Of Idaho to the East; The tonnage was in Clark’s Report Who got The Munchies at a feast; The Revolution petered put out In the cluttered colonies, Jefferson moved to Australia, Where the Aborigines were free; Newark became the Capital Of the Western British Isles Lincoln became a shoe salesman Famous for his smile.

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