Poeme Au Lieu D'une Parade Du Jour Colombe. Poem by Michael Walker

Poeme Au Lieu D'une Parade Du Jour Colombe.

Oui Cheri:


'Desordre aux Philippines':


Est-ce 7,000 isles
Suis-je 7,000 fragments d'un pays duquel
Christophe Colombe
se servit de ruiner la reputation
du compas?


Est-ce que quelqu'un demanda a un Indien
de payer le parking quelque part du tout?


Oui Mon Cheri:


'Desordre aux Philippines':


Mes politiques quotidiennes
une prise d'eau ouverte en versant de l'eau
dans la pluie de tard en novembre.

-'Poem Instead of a Columbus Day Parade'. June Jordan.

Saturday, June 6, 2015
Topic(s) of this poem: holiday
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
I read that Columbus Day is celebrated in the U.S. on the second Monday in November. Columbus may have discovered the Philippines first-maybe not. The poem, in any case, has an anti-colonial tone, more pro-Indian. I agree with it.
I worked out that it is her television-watching husband who says, 'Desordre aux Philippines'. It is snatches of dialogue.
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