Source: http://www.pi-news.org/2012/01/theyve-gone-mad-the-germans/
the marginal and the mainstream human
modern history finds them of despicable minor status today:
Turks in Europe
1961 saw them rolling in as blue-collar workers
after their government sold them for that infamous red carpet
its equally manipulative counterpart spread under their feet
they first became street sweepers
attended public toilets and god-forlorn alleys of crime
literary pens among them were brushed aside too long
when out of the scores of oppressed marginal selves
entrepreneurs with the crisp mainstream green came along
oozing ambitions into the parlamentarian powerhouse
although minor in impact yet language and mind intact
those foreign voices then changed into a well-known fact
back at home
for several centuries
their ancestors had under their reign civilizations galore
the great great great great great grandchildren of those rulers
remained oblivious to the ills of their life-seeking own
unaware how they are now trapped in the fangs of marginality
on the capricious pages of a modern-day European tragedy
one that has been writing for decades for the world to see
of their twofold abandonment by the hardcore humanity
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© hülya n. yılmaz, January 20, 2015
A poem contribution to the February 2015 issue of The Year of the Poet, a monthly book series published by Inner Child Press, Ltd.
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