COLUMBUS DAY

by Tom Karlson

Image source: Coyotes Corner

in long boat and knarr they sail west and south
stars and sun show a way for
Eric the Red’s son
gunless, horseless
a peaceful trip
see the sights pick some grape
leaving behind ruins and blue-eyed babies
Greenland bound   a new saga

Mali and Mandingo ships and men
with goods and weapons sail west and north
currents, wind and blind luck
bring them to the Yucatan
remains:
50 ton Nubian faced Olmac heads
myths of dark skinned giants

financed by Iberian Jewry
the Admiral, Christian or Jew, Spaniard or Italian
leads 120 men in the
Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria
sailing south and west  
India bound
crewed by:
Milton Freedman and his Chicago University goons
     in charge of propaganda, interrogation, discipline,
     race and class consciousness  
Prescott Bush and George Armstrong Custer
     compose the voyage manifesto and mission
below deck are the sun-dried souls of
Rasputin, the Popes, Sylvester the Second and Benedict the Ninth 
     in charge of rape, incest, and family values
Pinkerton and J Edgar Hoover
     spying,   pimping, and procuring stool pigeons
Kenneth Lay  
     finance, mergers, and loans
Edward Teller   
     munitions
Robert E Lee’s horse Traveler
will show the way home
where Ferdinand and Isabella’s bishops
find Jews to murder and maim, books to burn, Moors to exterminate

Columbus will trade
measles, diphtheria, small pox, and malaria
for gold and land
as he works out the science of genocide on Hispaniola
never forgetting the University’s tools of slavery   colonization
religious fanaticism   and free market capitalism  


Tom Karlson is founder of Poets for Peace, Long Island, NY.
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