{"id":5489,"date":"2020-04-06T10:49:14","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T14:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/?p=5489"},"modified":"2020-04-06T10:49:14","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T14:49:14","slug":"a-land-that-will-not-sorrow-the-sadness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/2020\/04\/06\/a-land-that-will-not-sorrow-the-sadness\/","title":{"rendered":"A Land That Will Not Sorrow The Sadness"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThere is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.\u201d \u2015 Howard Zinn<\/p>\n

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The Canary not\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 American plumped\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 wings plummeted perched to speak\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

mended shut<\/span> with barbwire \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span> \u00a0 from a world\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 who would rather\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

slit the black\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 birds throat and \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 tear out one of the Canaries bird<\/span><\/p>\n

Box \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 than to admit guilt\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 to the shameless slaughtering<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cdetox\u201d. All \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 sounds songs \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 souls mimicked the monotonous<\/span><\/p>\n

melodious feigning \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 of a falsified nation\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 who trapped the migrant\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

birds who dare travel \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 across the borders \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 stole\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

their eggs\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 hovering hatching \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 birthing them as their own Dam<\/span><\/p>\n

ned creations \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 eggs mothered by a land \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 who could never sorrow<\/span><\/p>\n

their sadness. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Oh Great Green pheasant \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 the duped enemy\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

dumped in \u201ccages\u201d scattered\u00a0 around \u00a0 dusted dried \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 deserted\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

desert ground\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Oh how I hear your cawing \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 in the cebrals \u00a0 \u00a0 of\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

my mind.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The mighty thunderbird supernatural\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 suffers a wobbled<\/span><\/p>\n

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wounded knee. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 A massacre \u00a0 masqueraded in the \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 bellowing buzzing\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

battle Trumpets \u00a0 \u00a0 that provided \u00a0 the beat that bathed the \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 birds, in blood of mass\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Extinction. \u00a0 The american canary\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 with yellowed patriotic blissness \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 sings the\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

melodious\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 falsities of a nation borne from \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Silence\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

being forced\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 down the beaks of every bird \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 who wasn\u2019t feathered\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

in the purity of\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 white.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I wrote this poem last year to speak upon the way that America handles its “problems” or rather the people it wishes not to have inside it’s country. The poem represents the Indians and\u00a0indegenous\u00a0people that we slaughtered, the immigrants that we have stereotyped and the Japenses Americans we unjustly imprisoned during WWII. We are a land that was built on the blood and enslavement of others. This is never more evident than looking at the diary of Christopher Columbus. It makes you question what we find ethical in the name of success and conquest?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThere is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.\u201d \u2015 Howard Zinn   The Canary not\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 American plumped\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 wings plummeted perched to speak\u00a0 mended shut with barbwire \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 from a world\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 who would rather\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 slit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-responses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}