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“ A Hyphenated World ”
– held fitting guise –
‘Tis a fitting guise
A hyphenated world,
Of hyphenated people
Barely joined together,
By shortest of lines
Save in desperate times,
If but to stay alive
Until next apprise,
Holds indefinite man
If he is to survive,
Until discord subsides
Tho wanting to encage
He’ll once more fractionize,
By manipulating stage…
In a language to divide
That largely means create
A hyphenated bide,
Trusted so to populate
Heedless of unwise,
Words fixed to engage
By language brigade,
Who spreads confusion
Among the lesser wise,
Maximize demand
To maintain disguise,
Of the hyphenated men
Who power world divides!
© Jean-Jacques Fournier
An unexpected but apt metaphor for our current life and times.
Thank you my friend… Actually, this metaphor, is the title of my eleventh book of poems as well, inspired by its first poem of said book! For some reason it is the one of my present sixteen published books that has had most book store success.