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Write No Cliches ... Pull No Punches ... And Keep Going All Night
We are nieces and nephews,
no matter how much we want
to be brothers, and daughters, and sisters and sons.
We war for the Uncle.
Uncle Sam
Uncle Same
Uncle Spend and
Uncle Spam
We war for the Uncle,
one step removed from a nuclear
family—father and son—a more civil war.
Great Aunt Brittania,
please don’t hide behind your firstborn.
Don’t claim that Sam’s a bastard;
the stripes of Old Glory were peeled
from the Union Jack.
Don’t pretend patriarchy poisoned
the well of the New World.
Remember the thick umbilical.
Remember the amniotic Atlantic.
We have cousins who were fondled
by their uncle, molested by the hand
of their royal aunt. We have
not cast off the abuse of the mother’s and father’s
brothers and sisters, but we keep repeating
the cycle of the abused.
When will we seek counsel—when
declare independence?
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