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A Deluge of Haiku

Aza Y. Alam
Dec 16, 2022

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Lamenting with my muse of a mermaid

Photo by Naja Bertolt Jensen on Unsplash

Sixth Mass extinction
Era Eurokleptocene
Is Planet Earth just about kaput?

Seeps microplastics
Weeps radiation weals, burns
Cries, white rule must die!

Penguins of North Pole
You will have to emigrate
Melting ice afloat

Each wilderness, dies
Pride of lions, in zoos
Fuck development

White immigrants spread
The globalised infection
Greed became, new God

Capitalism
Loves wars, profits from conflict
Death is good business

In the English sea
Black and Brown immigrants drown
Victims of white rule

Their children are dead
Watch their suicide, live streamed?
Life has lost meaning

How will BRICs rescue?
Ethical world leaders must
Undo the white crimes.

Here is where hope rose
Lie of the White man’s burden
BRICS’ challenge to bear

It’s our time, Europe
For 500 years you ruled
Rape, murder, mayhem.

Shut up, step aside
False superiority
Defeated, we rise.

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Aza Y. Alam
Aza Y. Alam

Written by Aza Y. Alam

Exploring the entanglements of gender, race and class during this era of the Eurokleptocene. Let’s do better, one story, one learning, one comment at a time.

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