Caboceer Dumps Abusive Lover

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Caboceer Dumps
Abusive Lover
Cavaliere servente to mi cultura,
Anglo anime—often manqué—origamied
Into dictum adored via prima facie.
“C’est la vie, dyesvushka.”
You, who pine “ubi sunt, ubi sunt,”
Coquettes your little brother, literati,
To easel spic, hick, and sahib
As crimson leitmotifs of unity.
There’s a new twist in our affair.
Mi luv yu like ow Jesus love likkel child,
but mea culpas, memento moris, and blues
now jig to history a capella
your pen. They sing the distance between us, and hope the occasional
contact—love, anger, something—will reach the other side,
homie.
1
Caboceer - African who collected slaves for colonizers, often a chieftain
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Cavaliere servente - 18th century Italian consort of married woman, obligated to her every whim
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dyesvushka - Russian term for voracious woman
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ubi sunt - Latin: “where have the days of yesteryear gone”
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