cooked brain/slave ship on the horizon
“Mother, you had me—but I didn’t have you.
I couldn’t walk, so I tried to run…”
-bitterboy John Winston Lennon, “Mother” (1970).
as to the above, lennon’s mother julia was a party girl (his father a blotto sailor); she made a rare visit to him when he was fourteen and living with her responsible sister, then walked out-the-door and was run-over & killed by a drunk cop about twenty-two feet from the front door, her hair twisted into the wheelbase.
curious to reflect, o saajin, that liverpool was the greatest african
slave ship port of the 18th c., but knew no slaves itself—the
african-blooded workers, seafarers, ‘arming the works’ were all free
men. Liverpool lies across the squallish Irish sea from dublin, which
for a much longer period of human history was europe’s greatest
slave-trading port—the central bazaar where vikings captured &
castrated the locals for sale into the persian & byzantine empires.
(we know this bit about castration, because the vikings sold both men
and women into the harems of anatolia and n. africa.)
strawberry-haired [Irish] Lennon, who abandoned a decent-if-stupid
local girl (and mother of his son) for the fat-breasted daughter of
the chair of japan’s national bank/funders of the imperial war
machine, generated some insane hatred amongst the tommys who survived
their surrender and subsequent bestial imprisonment at the hands of
the nipponese in the pacific theatre.
The japanese, as you know, were slavers throughout east asia. a korean”comfort woman” sex slave cd. reasonably expect to die servicing sixty-something soldiers a day. (the japanese exterminated the chinese
like mice, but that’s another tale.) i didn’t expect to be writing any
of this (cooked brain?), i just needed a ‘mother’ quote!
some will die for an idea; others for someone else’s idea. for all the
shit ‘going-down,’ we live in arguably the gentlest, most reasonable
period in human history. (but, is that another slave ship on the
horizon?)
.p.bushman
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