amerikkkans on vacation...

topic posted Thu, April 5, 2007 - 12:05 AM by  ultra
AMERICAN ON VACATION

YOU'VE COME ALL THE WAY
FROM THE USA
TO A PLACE WHERE YOU CAN PRETEND
THAT IT'S THE GOOD OLD DAYS

IN A FOREIGN LAND
YOU'RE THE AMERICAN
BUT EVERYONE KNOWS
YOU'RE JUST ANOTHER WHITE MAN

EUROPEAN IN THE WATER
YOU'RE A SHITTIN IN THE STREAM
YOU'RE A WHOLE DAMN RACE
OF KILLING MACHINES

FLOOD THE ECONOMY
WITH YOUR DOLLAR BILLS
AND SPREAD DISEASE
WITH YOUR POTIONS AND PILLS

BUILDING BIG HOTELS
SO YOU CAN COME AND STAY
BUT YOU WANT TO WALK
THROUGH SHANTY TOWN
WHEN IT'S TIME TO PLAY

YOU AND YOUR WOMAN
SO CREAMY AND WHITE
YOU SCARE THE PICKNEY
WHEN YOU STROLL ABOUT AT NIGHT

A KU KLUX KLANSMAN
WITHOUT HIS HOOD
LOOKING FOR SOME KICKS
AND UP TO NO GOOD

YOU THINK YOU'RE SUPERMAN
WITHOUT HIS CAPE
LOOKING FOR ANOTHER
HOUSEMAID TO RAPE

YOUR WOMAN, WELL
SHE'S LOOKING FOR
A BIG BLACK DICK
CAUSE SHE'S TIRED
OF HAVING HER PUSSY LICKED

SO YOU COME TO MY COUNTRY
TO LIE IN THE SUN
PROTECTED BY SOLDIERS
WITH MACHINE GUNS

NOW YOU'RE FLYING AWAY
ON A BIG JET PLANE
BECAUSE YOU'RE TIRED
OF PLAYING TARZAN AND JANE

AND I'M LEFT
WORSE OFF THAN I EVER WAS
YOU'VE NO IDEA
WHAT YOUR VACATION REALLY DOES

SEXUAL DISEASES
THAT WE'VE NEVER SEEN
AND A GENERATION BRAINWASHED
BY THE AMERICAN DREAM

A WHOLE LEGACY OF SELF HATE
ACTING FIRST CLASS
AND TREATING ME
AS SECOND RATE

ESPOUSING THE VIRTUES
OF DEMOCRACY
BUT IN PRACTICE
IT'S THE SAME RACIST IDEOLOGY

IF I ACT IN YOUR COUNTRY
LIKE YOU DO IN MINE
YOU'D PUT ME IN JAIL
FOR COMMITTING A CRIME

YOU BUILD BIG HOTELS
WHERE I CAN STAY
FOR NINETY-NINE YEARS
AND A FUCKING DAY

AND IF I WALK
THROUGH YOUR PART OF TOWN
POLICEMEN COME
AND BEAT ME DOWN

YOU'VE GOT YOUR HOOD
AND YOU'VE GOT YOUR CAPE
AND YOU'RE READY TO LYNCH
CAUSE YOUR BITCHES CRY RAPE

BUT FOR REAL
RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION
JUST ASK ANY NATIVE
ABOUT AMERICANS ON VACATION


copyrightdjones1996
posted by:
ultra
Seattle
  • Re: amerikkkans on vacation...

    Thu, April 5, 2007 - 12:34 AM
    inconsistantly spaced five line stanzas with one rhyming couplet -- that's an innovative structural bad device. I'm afraid that these distract from the hypnotic badness you started with and manage to keep the poem from being worse than it really is.

    It probably gets at least one star.
    • Re: amerikkkans on vacation...

      Thu, April 5, 2007 - 9:33 AM
      why thank you...that's better than the three zeros i got at a slam off this poem...yay!!!
      • Re: amerikkkans on vacation...

        Thu, April 5, 2007 - 3:13 PM
        Can someone please explain to my what was bad about the poem?

        I must have missed something.
        • Re: amerikkkans on vacation...

          Fri, April 6, 2007 - 3:23 AM
          nothing bad about realism...unless you experience it first hand...lol...
          • Re: amerikkkans on vacation...

            Fri, April 6, 2007 - 9:18 AM
            Everywhere you go in the world and see Americans, there are other Americans you don't see; Americans shunning the Americans you see.

            Even in Canada; I was one.
            • Re: amerikkkans on vacation...

              Fri, April 6, 2007 - 10:38 AM
              yes...i was one in jamaica and grenada...i suspect that we had similar experiences...funny thing was...they thought i was one of the natives...until i opened my mouth to speak and the accent gave everything away...lol...after some initial hesitancy i was well accepted into several small communities...
            • Re: amerikkkans on vacation...

              Fri, April 6, 2007 - 11:26 AM
              then there's the third tier of americans who shun the american shunning americans.

              when in reality they all fail to see that they're just americans spread out on a scale of nationalist shame/pride.

              hooty-tooty gringo snobs embarassed by their countrymen are just as cliche as obnoxious camera clickers from texas.

              we're about as fucked in the head as catholics when it comes to our country.

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