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Hubris

At fifteen, they told me to restart me life,
conscripted into an imperialism not of my choosing:
their hometown, their great homecoming.
Lost in the great reunification of West-meets-East
and handed a wall of thirty miles between birthplace
and settlement, a border for youth.

Given a new straitjacket of identity and marched
into a classroom where I was taught to believe
that transformation was not akin to destruction,
expected to add the veniality of a neoteric sun
to our daily prayers.
It killed from above,
without the whites of eyes to trouble it.

On playgrounds, found kulaks resisting commonality;
seen as strangers, kept as strangers.

Taking place in the sharecroppers' breadline
of dinner queues, I was the great usurped of Guernica,
my hunger a token no one would trade for.

I was Abyssinia to this Italy, my infancy bowing
to an alien League of Nations: the League of Emptiness,
the League of Contempt, as I nodded along to all smiles:
their pride, my downfall.

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from Omnivorous EP (free download), released October 6, 2019

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DARDIS Northern Ireland, UK

DARDIS: Discord And Relative Depressions In Sound.

Ambient and experimental sound project for Northern Irish writer, editor and sound artist Colin Dardis.

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