Saturday, January 25, 2020

Poem for the week: "I Want More, and I Want It Fast"



I Want More, and I Want It Fast

“I want more, and I want it fast,”
said the lady of the land, the fourth
child of an alcoholic and broken
man taken from his home when he
was only ten to be assimilated into
the culture, language, and strange
ways of the people that appropriated
the land from his people and made it
their own; but the times have changed,
as has the moral imperative, and the
people of the land demand their old
ways back, their culture, language,
and much more, and the lady of the
land cried the R-word like a wailing
banshee. “I want more, and I want
it fast,” she kept repeating over and
over and over again, like a ghost
hungering for its lost soul.





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