June 10, 2015 | Posted by admin
RubyAre you contemplating going out somewhereThe shadow on the wall tells me the sun is going downOh Ruby, don’t take your love to town.—Kenny RogersThe chain of marriage is so heavy that it takes two to bear it;sometimes three.Shut your big mouth!—The first English words I understood from the mouth ofDaddy!I remember nowRubyit was 1961Hannah Arendt had just published herEichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of EvilRuby1961 was also that fateful year when your familyHad taken me in off the streets of Mogadishu as one of their ownHad adopted meIn SomaliaIn the Village of Mahadday WayneOur DaddyCarl Johannes WesselhoeftOur own Eichmannwas hiding in Mahadday Wayneamong the Mennonite Missionariesby pretending to be one of them!But he fooled no one!The Nazi!That is what we Somalis and the American Mennonite Missionaries called him behind his backOur Daddy wasso obnoxiousso NaziThat the Somali Authorities kicked him out of Somalia for a monthfor preachingout of his Bibleout of Hitler’sMein Kampf!Upon his return from Nairobihe had to report every month all his activities to the local village authoritiesRubyFrom the get-goOur DaddyBarely made it possible for me to breathe or AchooRubyFrom the get-goOur Daddy told meShut your big mouth!RubyFrom the get-goI had the courage to tellThe BullyThe NaziOur DaddyOur own EichmannGo fuck yourself!I don’t like youBecause I don’t like bullies!As a matter of fact I am allergic to krauts like youPeriod!Our motherLeota Good loved me for saying that to his face!When I praised MomOut of jealousyThe kraut taunted me with his kraut proverbWhose bread I eatHer song I sing!Mamma Leota found marriage to our Daddy so heavy to bearThat she openly took lovers right and leftshe openly had a legendary loverone called Hassan Arab living with us under the same roof!Our Mamma Leota was no hypocrite like our Daddy!The whole village of Mahadday Wayne enjoyedwatching this Soap Operaplaying out on the banks of the Shabelle River!But our Daddy pretendedthat he did not notice!that he did not care!But one day our Daddy took his revengeWhen he saw that Mamma Leota was not dyingas he was hopingBut recovering from MalariaDaddy cruelly told herYou spoiled my plansAs soon as you vacated the premisesAnd we carted away your carcass I was going to marryEitherFae MillerOrElsie Vanpelt!RubyWhen will you be brave enough likeSister Sylvia PlathAnd say:Daddy, I have had to kill youI never could talk to youThe tongue stuck in my jawIt stuck in a barb wire snareIch, ich, ich, ichI could hardly speakI thought every German was youAnd the language obsceneAn engine, an engineChuffing me off like a JewA Jew to Dachau, Auschwitz, BelsenI began to talk like a JewI think I may well be a JewI may be a bit of a JewI have always been scared of youWith your Luftwaffe, your gobbledygooAnd your neat mustacheAnd your Aryan eye, bright bluePanzer-man, panzer-man, O You——Every woman adores a FascistThe boot in the face, the bruteBrute heart of a brute like youA man in black with a Meinkampf lookSo daddy, I’m finally throughThere’s a stake in your fat black heartAnd the villagers never liked youThey are dancing and stamping on youThey always knew it was youDaddy, daddy, you bastard, I’m through!Oh RubyDon’t take your love to townDon’t take your love to the NaziDon’t take your love to Daddy!Don’t be his floozy fraulein!Oh RubyDon’t take your love to townOh Ruby, for God’s sake turn aroundOh Ruby, for God’s sake come back to your senses!Oh Ruby, for God’s sake rememberYou are the Daughter of Leota Good too!As you knowI am no longer an American like you!I can’t ever come back and live in the USA againBecause of that ol’ crazy Asian warIt wasn’t me that started that ol’ crazy Asian warBut I was proud to go and do my patriotic choreAnd demonstrate against that ol’ crazy Asian warIn from of the White HouseYellingLike Mohamed Alifor all the world to hearHell, No!We won’t go!No Viet Cong ever called me Nigger!Hey! Hey!Hey LBJHow many kids did you kill today!?And I am proud to say I did my patriotic chore and drove LBJout of the White House and into his early grave!While our Nazi Daddy-o was prayingwith Billy Grahamwith LBJSinging togetherOnward Christian Soldiers!marching as to warWith the cross of Jesusgoing on before!Christ, the royal Masterleads again the foeForward into battlesee his banner go!Oh RubyIt is not too late!Don’t take your love to townDon’t take your love to the NaziDon’t take your love to Daddy!Don’t be his floozy fraulein!Oh RubyDon’t take your love to townOh Ruby, for God’s sake turn aroundOh Ruby, for God’s sake come back to your senses!Oh Ruby, for God’s sake rememberYou are the Daughter of Leota Good too!— Your brother, Mohamud Siad Togane__._,_.___
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