[DEBATE] : (Fwd) New Brutus

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On Nov 27, 2007 5:19 AM,  <pbond at mail.ngo.za> wrote:
> The New Monastics
> by Dennis Brutus
>
> Tall black-shadowed cypresses
> slender beside arcaded cloisters:
> thus were monastic enterprises:
> now with our new doctrines
> secular-consumerist we bend
> with similar devoutness in service
> to our modern pantheon -
> Bretton Woods, its cohort deities
> - World Bank, IMF, WTO -
> diligently we recite
> "We have loved, o lord, the beauty of your house
> and the place where your glory dwells"
> "Amen" we chorus in unison
> as ordered by our Heads of State
> obediently we traipse to our slaughterhouse
> directed by our Judas-goats
> Mbeki's herds tricked out in shabby rags
> discarded by imperialist gauleiters
> who devised our Neepad subjugation
>
> ActionAid Economic Justice course,
> Kenyan School of Monetary Studies
> Nairobi, November 26, 2007

I love this poem.
-- 
Yoshie
<http://montages.blogspot.com/>