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| Poem: The memory sinkhole or the danger of history |
| 09.03.05 (8:23 pm) [edit] |
This poem appeared in the Green Left Weekly, Current Issue # 640.
The battle for freedom over tyranny
Is the battle of remembering over forgetting
- Milan Kundera
And yet there is another battle, but I'll save it for the end
As they write their lopsided histories of fiction
'cause they get paid to show only one side
where the others just don't count
this has been happening from the beginning of time
And even the adopted father of history comitted this
crime
So, where are the worker's histories, Herodotus?
I don't see them in your mmany anointed volumes
concerning rich minorities and your obsessive hatred of
the Persians,
Their struggles are just not mentioned and I want to know about them
Then and now
And I want to know why Lenin laughed at Churchill's
history of the Revolution
Written from so many miles away and before his time
And did that war end in 1918 or 1919 with the invasion of
the white armies?
And I want to know about James Connolly and read his
essay on landlordism
And I want to know what he said to his daughter working
in that textile mill
Before what came during 1916
And I want to know what Orwell meant when he said that
what he was witnessing in Spain in 1936 was not just a
Civil War but the birth of a revolution, and why that was then put down?
And I want to know about the Australian servicemen who revolted at Syndey Central
And why I can't tell the difference between the
concentration camps in Europe during the 1940's and the
last for the immigrants today
And what the Wobblies did in 'Frisco at the turn of last
century to stop longer hours on the docks. And what they
tried to do at Hoover Dam with workers dying everyday.
And I want to know why the CIA murders of trade unionists are mentioned in Colombia
Whilst being written off as "work accidents" in this country
And I want to know more about the Northwoods document and what they really did to the Maine? And why they are afraid of little Cuba.
And that other September 11 in Chile
And soon they'll be telling you their birthdate
And what literature you should be valuing
And why Shakespeare is looking so good when nobody
seems to understand a fucking line
And praising Alexander The Great's imperialism and not his mistake
And Genghis Khan's
And Caisus Caesar's
And Dubya's and not his mistake
And that function of patriotism that expires when the
servicemen return
With stories of their own and who are suddenly forgotten
and left off the streets
Then and now
And soon they'll be telling you what you're interested in
And where you should be putting what little they pay you
And calling you troublemaker when you start speaking -the
truth
And saying you don't have the understanding of putting
pen to paper
Just so you don't start writing your own histories
Or make your own films
Or forge your own guns in a desperate bid for freedom.
Brad Evans
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