Million Dead Chinua Achebe Will Have his Revenge on
ec1 Lyrics:
i harbour secret imaginings of social masochism
and retribution. with unprecedented religious
openness, the old adage comes karmic and the third
shall be first. so maybe someday some african
nation will impose a protectorate and a hut tax on
whitehall. and maybe one day my compadres in delhi
will de-industrialize the docklands. so we should
fear their frustration, their khmer anger, shored
against ruin. we should heed their terrain, their
himalayas shored against collapse. chinua achebe,
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let's start pointing fingers at a room of
caucasian men, somewhere in EC1. ho chi minh, here
come the americans again, this time armed with
cameras and arrogance in place of their mp5s.
steven biko, what happened to soweto? your
disposessed millions have retained their apartheid
slum. wealthy millions, here comes an army of
landmine refugees, in limbless solidarity, come to
reclaim their positive equity in kensington and
knightsbridge, chelsea and fulham. and is their
still time to disencircle bagdhad, and yet tell a
jingo story about the good times we had?
forty-five minutes at the top of this skyscraper,
a thousand feet, it's not enough.
Lyrics: Chinua Achebe Will Have his Revenge on ec1, Million
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