Tayi Tibble
Assimilation
they consider
themselves to be
a modern couple
they take turns
giving
and receiving
oral
they split the bills
evenly and they share
the chores but
when he brings in
the washing
he leaves the pegs
all over the ground
he doesn't bother to
pick them up
and put them back
into the basket
and she considers this to be
culturally insensitive
and as progressive
as they are
she can't help
but think about
potatoes and muskets
disease-ridden blankets
surveyors and preachers
and how many Māori girls
ended up on their knees
in order to erect
this modern nation
she sighs
and rolls her eyes
like a tiny haka
as she pulls the last
remaining peg embedded
in the mud with the last
of her mana
she could either lick them clean
with the sponge of her tongue
or
plunge them back into the earth's
dark wet cunt. Let her husband pick them up.
Assimilation
they consider
themselves to be
a modern couple
they take turns
giving
and receiving
oral
they split the bills
evenly and they share
the chores but
when he brings in
the washing
he leaves the pegs
all over the ground
he doesn't bother to
pick them up
and put them back
into the basket
and she considers this to be
culturally insensitive
and as progressive
as they are
she can't help
but think about
potatoes and muskets
disease-ridden blankets
surveyors and preachers
and how many Māori girls
ended up on their knees
in order to erect
this modern nation
she sighs
and rolls her eyes
like a tiny haka
as she pulls the last
remaining peg embedded
in the mud with the last
of her mana
she could either lick them clean
with the sponge of her tongue
or
plunge them back into the earth's
dark wet cunt. Let her husband pick them up.