Artwork © Richard Spisak
Closing Diversity’s Door
Zuck says yuck to DEI, what’s to hate in the end, isn’t it really
all about everybody being the white men’s friend? If only loudly to
say again
only the lord himself’s above the white men’s sullied bitter end.
All those darker, hue on hue, didn’t they ever get the news?
You’re excited,
I know you are, we’re riding, but don’t kid yourself, you’ll be
pushing the car.
I’m the white man, I’m in charge, aren’t you just ectstatic and
oh so, truly
enthusiastic watching me out there aromatic living large?
Yes, you’ll attend my ship of state,
you may admire me, just don’t forget, you’ll be down below
as freight?
But hey, you know I’m great,
I really RATE! We’ll be stealing from your state, all the things
that enrich us wait.
Min’rals, forests, water too, we’ll need all your creatures
for our zoos.
Oh yeah, we’ll steal your labor too,
we’ll take all that, after all that.
I’ll probably need a brand new hat.
I’ll need a couple mansions and a great big boat, of course
all my loans, will gather round you’ll wear them round
your throat.
And all those women that we cheaply chiefly do employ, just
make sure they know to bow and curtsy to our boys.
Sure enough, they had their day, in court, but face it now,
we’re well passed now the last resort!
Don’t you really want our protection,
(we think so) while we admire in each passing mirror our
gleaming masterful reflection. Ah such perfection.
Purged from our sight, obscured thee o’ thou chattel,
I guess we just enjoy the sounds of your chains when they rattle,
just like the bells upon our fine swiss cattle.
Go ahead complain, we thought you might, but after all, our
sactimonious talk of Christian values, you know deep down.
What we really believe my friend.
“Might is RIGHT!”
We’ll take Panama, and Greenland too
perhaps we’ll make Canada a state, now wouldn’t you? Maybe we’ll
invade Mexico, yeah we might –
We’ll sneak in from California and Texas
on a deep dark night.
NO MORE DEI – I don’t think we can besides after all, any REALLY
BIG MISTAKES
Must be done by a MAN.
Richard Spisak began his artistic career as a light artist in the Lumonics Studios of Mel Tanner, a legendary Light Artist. After serving under Jack Horkheimer as a planetarium operator at the Miami Space-Transit Planetarium, he left to begin traveling with Lumist Kenvin Lyman, whose show Dazzleland Studios traveled across America. Richard later worked as a Laserist with LASERIUM and Laser Productions, served as a technical producer for the festival company PACE Concerts, and later as operations Manager and Senior Producer at WWHP and WTCN-TV in Stuart Florida.
Richard writes for Theatre, TV, radio, and the web. He published two short story collections, Two Small Windows, in a Pair of Mirror Doors, and Between the Silences. Followed by his poetry collection 7370 Allen Drive and the recently released STONE POETRY. Richard also produces “POETS of the East,” a televised webcast featuring poets from across the globe.