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If You Pull a Long Face - Part Xxxi

IF YOU PULL A LONG FACE : Part XXXI IF you pull a long lagging-behind face You deserve your copycat status in more than one way Marco Polo brought back cracker-power not to powder face Noble Savage Injuns and Indians shuddered and gave way Now if you pull a long WOG face Aping the Colonial Master in every bourgeois way No use straddling neck feet dangling front of face Giant still supports the Dwarf while striding away If you still will pull that long sullen " heathen " face Thinking how easy the tidal wave you'd turn back anyway Vasco's galleons rained broadside thunder balls on village place While your loin-clothed turbaned ancestors scurried in fear If you then pull your long self-satisfied face At your hosts' Midas touch riding main fleets of Raleigh To stud Crown lapis lazuli rubies opal spice and maize Needs he as much now you to beg fawn and yeah-say If you must then pull your long infra-dig face Hankering after titles prizes rubbing shoulders in hallowed hallway Colonial caste of mind gives exacting the Shylock pound of flesh Smites your integrity dignity breaks spirit robs merits if " I YOU DARE ! " say © T. Wignesan - Paris, February 8, 2019

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