this is Taiwan's patience

pirate hideout rendezvous
bury booty, patch a sloop
trade with natives maybe stay
live to plunder other days
stormy haven, plant a seed
hunt and gather, build some huts
start a plantation
cash crop colonizers
Portugese and Chinese
Dutch, and wily Japanese
never a country or a nation
Sinification, Japanification,Americanization
who are the Taiwanese?
tell me please, tell them please
collecting these for centuries
Pacific island
superstitious
warm and friendly
and so delicious
so Han waters run
through draughts and typhoons
many influences
o'er rain forests and plains
many moons
this is Taiwan's patience
and will remain
this is the hood, this is for good
for those who home here
living as we should
for carpetbaggers and capitalist business
for colonizers and communist traitors
be on your way, suck my fist!
don't patronize her
we learn to resist!

10-10-13