The Conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.,
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
No Dulling of Shine in the Face of Depravity – A Poem by Le-Dash
Not pretty people by the Coloniser’s standards
Un-romanticised: subhuman
Large Noses
Sometimes callouses
Skin markings (mistaken for tarnished wares)
No fine flaxen hair
Rotund buttocks
Long, dark, slender limbs
Pointy, burnished brown breasts – laid bare
Sinews intact: unchicoted, wrapped in charcoal hues
You are apt to miss the genius of this genus
If instead,
You look too much
with White hot gaze and foul intentions
at accoutrements hidden below their earthly land
You’ll miss the beauty to be found in the face of the human with the unsevered hand
Le' D-ash 