Monday, April 10, 2023

Work in Progress: Haiti Fragment

 1912

slave rebellion cannot be allowed, 

virus creeping up the keys


revolution-infection

James McDonald, railroad man:

“What Haiti needs is employment”


John Allen and Banque Nationale

Farnham and National City New York:

Send in the troops!


United Fruit Company: Occupy!

Sec. of State W J (Goldboy) Bryan:

Think of it! N*****s speaking French!


Farnham, white savior:

warlords running Saint-Domingue

constitute a certain form of slavery


no helping hand has been stretched

to the common person, no effort made

to improve their condition


the hand, of course,

being Adam Smith’s invisible appendage

clenched into the fist of the imperial


Wilson per Bryan: “the United States

cannot stand by and permit

revolutionary conditions to exist


We have not the authority

to do what we ought, but sometimes

we must take the bull by the horns