sadantes - Stephen A. Dantes: St. Lucian Poet, Novelist and Performer
Stephen A. Dantes. 2014 = Rebirth

 

 The Tourist Dollar - A SLP and UWP Story
by Stephen A. Dantes 


I fight the battles of men
in the shoes of a boy walking
in the shadows of ancestors who saw not this future

Gravestone-honour
lost to babies born from bastard children
singing in slave shacks and sugar fields. 

Whips crack open the same spots;
Ageless.
The same lots offered to the same shades
and then forced to be laid upon;
Timeless. 

Navel-strings find no roots, 
beaches reject bones; 
Birthrights sold to the same shades. 

Voices become
as is, 
and was,
but shouldn’t. 

Birthrights lost to the same shades
for the same reasons
in the same seasons;
Treasonous. 

When descendants of the reparatory rite see no Pigeons to Point to
The Workers’ Labour - painful and brute -
shall be colourful;
Genetic extinction.

 

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