for colonisers so loved their colonies
they painted churches white
and their heavens
erected poles for us to dream
of flags, not lands
carved hills for forts
named and renamed forts after battle victors
beatified abolitionists, we must be thankful
for their benevolence
while the Ministry of Education debates
[African] hair in school policy
and O’Level students read a world
of pommecythere & hurricanes
but grow to gag colonial countrysides & sonnets
in BIPOC/minority/diversity publishing
like the calypsonians’ whose jackets and sobriquets
could not alleviate days ketchin
dey ass to be somebody on this island
is best i stay out of any Great House & Tradition