occupied

misreadings

by Roberto Lavidez

there were

many errors

of translation

and numerous

misreadings

and some fairly

definite

conclusions

present

themselves

almost unsought

these things

don’t disappear

they are

reformulated

and reinterpreted

in ways

in which

it is adopted

on aggressive

mission

holy wars

primitivism

and the like

produced

through

cultural

discourses

and vast

networks

of social

relationships

perhaps in

remembering

perhaps in

irony

writing

histories

without

analogy

without

parallel

in the

ongoing

drama of

investing life

without

a purpose

without

a direction

without

common

understanding

this is the

crux

of the

matter

allowing us

to  praise

the great 

dead

as if they

were  still

alive

intoxicating

them with

the miasma

of their

primitive

hatred

sending into

paroxysms

of godlessness

a world

of war

sickness

hunger

and pain

the great men

of the past

had too often

been disruptive

no other

path of action

would be

appropriate

for they were

precisely

the features

a hoaxer

would eliminate

the exclusionist

view that

there was

only one

truth

about the

inner nature

of the world

temporarily

breaking

the hold of

a suffocating

sun

unexamined

uncriticized

uninspected

evidence free

argument

resting on

nothing

more than

speculation

the lack

of respect

the quick

judgement

we make of

each other

coming back

again to the

same old cycle

occupation

evictions

and violence

whether  as

hero

clown

or fiend

to shed faith

is to embrace

the logic

of the occupier

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