RUMINONI'S 'MERIKA
(AKA THE BROWNING OF)
KIM-MARIE WALKER
It wasn’t Ruminoni’s fault. The slide rule of her mind collapsed into a compact mirror the size of a nanoparticle to drone itself over to the epistle of neurospeculative afrofeminism, now a virtual reality, for reals, just google it, surpassing the Millennials for a coming soon but, yet unnamed, generation, that inspires the newest crayon color, ‘Afreikanus Rulasista’…a multi-composition of blueblack meets ‘MERIKA’s increasing population of melanin proficient citizens.
It wasn’t Ruminoni’s fault. The past decades polarizing MERIKA’S Peeps of Color (POC). Blacks being killed by popopolice, suburbanite wypipo being killed by opiates & meth, oh my; indigenous nation peoples not able to protest polluted H2O plus Flint, global warming, poverty, any war just pick one, President Four-Five and his #WTF revolving cast. It just wasn’t her fault.
It wasn’t Ruminoni’s decision. To build the wall. To group humans from a Eurocraycentric hoodwinkism, divide the Afrique continent, encroach North America and use GunGermsSteel oppression on most of the globe and stomp on the HATE&PRIVELGE button for centuries. Then THE NERVE, have Alzheimers on purpose to write and teach only theirlopsided his-tory. Umph, umph, umph. Canadian maple leaf rippling, tiptoeing through the tulips worldscape. North ‘MERIKA’s First Nations rise to a Pamuya beat google Pamuya. Rah rah, sis boom, a-bah damn time.
It wasn’t Ruminoni’s idea. The yellow hammer and sickle and star against a flag’s red background, brazeningly waving in the ARCTIC claiming dominion over a has been, ain’t nobody got time for that OIL SLICK resource. HOLLA. You are my sunshine got the POWER. Coalminers betta recognize, lou-lou, skip to the future, y’all.
It wasn’t Ruminoni’s burden. To tell all BLACKS getting paid ova a million to skip Warren Buffet’s GIVING PLEDGE and invest in premium land, organic farms, hydroponics andalternative energy; and open more banks for BLACK futures and shares on NASDAQ and OKAY, LET’S GO THERE, because AARP is not talking about it, build lush greenspace communities for Black retiree dollars. If every BLACK multimillion bizness, actor, song-singing warbler, ball-dribblin, track ‘n’ field speedster, leather-toting-jersey-jockstrap wearing NFLer,
golf n’ tennis ‘n gymnastics playing bros’ and sis’ (and that lone hockey dude) give just one and six zeroes, #WEBEJAMMING past a trillion.
Immigrant mini-cities and towns, POC and Slavic, established and thriving and getting loans. They know how to hold it down and get-it-together on the hush-hush while the [in]justice and militaristic law enforcement systems and the KKK-white militia and supremacists keep the centuries ol’ stink eye on home-grown Blacks. BLACKS get high-rise inner-circle cities and stingy lot gardens (grow non-MGO corn not cotton, okay?). How did Ruminoni’s people become the poster child for institutional HATE? NYC gentrifiers come in and got the nerve to holla, change HARLEM to ‘SOHA’ dismissing BLACK ‘MERIKA history, once again.
Well now, take a breather. Inner cities could be the bastion of solar energy rooftop collard greens and filtered water and such. Question: How do we get true gun reform ASAP? Answer: Encourage every POC to join the NRA. Encourage every POC to start-up or join a constitutional militia, just like wypipo have for centuries. U will see lightspeed gun control change. U know is true.
It wasn’t Ruminoni’s preference. To embrace and engage her PEACELOVING, Buddiating-Mudra Zen-self, and then slide quick-quick into she skintight spandex CAT-woman leotard (with flowing cape) to get a permit to carry and a holster for her arms, peppa spray and stunner.
It was absolutely Ruminoni’s pleasure. To see those confederate statutes of BIGOTS and MURDERERS and TERROISTS and SLAVEOWNERS come DOWN. To jettison baggage accrued assimilating and acculturating into the nation’s institutional racist river’s where she swam upstream sans fins or gills, filled with might and purpose. So, she stopped: Smiling and speaking enunciated English when entering a room of wypipo (to put them at ease), keeping hands in pockets whilst shopping, avoiding supermarket aisle’s with wypipo purses insight, looking at ANY IMAGERY of only wypipo, especially commercials and ads.
Free of some baggage, Ruminoni now: Says, “Yes, you may be my personal shopper, here’s my list” to any non-Black sales person asking, “May I help you?” as soon as she steps inside a store where POC don’t normally shop. Grins ONLY when she feels like it. Declares to buy Black and POC whenever possible, and to only spread her green $ plastic beyond that demographic with companies who’ve proven POC inclusiveness with philanthropic largesse.
Well now, take a breather. Ruminoni isn’t anti-wypipo. She just cooking up a lil’ somethin’ somethin’ in neurospeculative space that ain’t virtual, but for reals, making up for mindspace lost to assimilation over six decades. No mo’ dual realities for she.
It wasn’t Ruminoni’s fault. The slide rule of her mind expanded into a Hubble telescope the size of a neutrino whose mass is less than a billionth of a hydrogen atom, so small it passes through a light-year (about six trillion miles) of lead without hitting a single atom. Ruminoni aims to encompass the Sun, pass a portal through dark matter, and emerge triumphant into a galaxy set to explode, implode, spin, unfurl and awaken to a reality full of only SHE, dark and lovely, free, not at last, but at first breath.
It wasn’t Ruminoni’s fault. The past decades polarizing MERIKA’S Peeps of Color (POC). Blacks being killed by popopolice, suburbanite wypipo being killed by opiates & meth, oh my; indigenous nation peoples not able to protest polluted H2O plus Flint, global warming, poverty, any war just pick one, President Four-Five and his #WTF revolving cast. It just wasn’t her fault.
It wasn’t Ruminoni’s decision. To build the wall. To group humans from a Eurocraycentric hoodwinkism, divide the Afrique continent, encroach North America and use GunGermsSteel oppression on most of the globe and stomp on the HATE&PRIVELGE button for centuries. Then THE NERVE, have Alzheimers on purpose to write and teach only theirlopsided his-tory. Umph, umph, umph. Canadian maple leaf rippling, tiptoeing through the tulips worldscape. North ‘MERIKA’s First Nations rise to a Pamuya beat google Pamuya. Rah rah, sis boom, a-bah damn time.
It wasn’t Ruminoni’s idea. The yellow hammer and sickle and star against a flag’s red background, brazeningly waving in the ARCTIC claiming dominion over a has been, ain’t nobody got time for that OIL SLICK resource. HOLLA. You are my sunshine got the POWER. Coalminers betta recognize, lou-lou, skip to the future, y’all.
It wasn’t Ruminoni’s burden. To tell all BLACKS getting paid ova a million to skip Warren Buffet’s GIVING PLEDGE and invest in premium land, organic farms, hydroponics andalternative energy; and open more banks for BLACK futures and shares on NASDAQ and OKAY, LET’S GO THERE, because AARP is not talking about it, build lush greenspace communities for Black retiree dollars. If every BLACK multimillion bizness, actor, song-singing warbler, ball-dribblin, track ‘n’ field speedster, leather-toting-jersey-jockstrap wearing NFLer,
golf n’ tennis ‘n gymnastics playing bros’ and sis’ (and that lone hockey dude) give just one and six zeroes, #WEBEJAMMING past a trillion.
Immigrant mini-cities and towns, POC and Slavic, established and thriving and getting loans. They know how to hold it down and get-it-together on the hush-hush while the [in]justice and militaristic law enforcement systems and the KKK-white militia and supremacists keep the centuries ol’ stink eye on home-grown Blacks. BLACKS get high-rise inner-circle cities and stingy lot gardens (grow non-MGO corn not cotton, okay?). How did Ruminoni’s people become the poster child for institutional HATE? NYC gentrifiers come in and got the nerve to holla, change HARLEM to ‘SOHA’ dismissing BLACK ‘MERIKA history, once again.
Well now, take a breather. Inner cities could be the bastion of solar energy rooftop collard greens and filtered water and such. Question: How do we get true gun reform ASAP? Answer: Encourage every POC to join the NRA. Encourage every POC to start-up or join a constitutional militia, just like wypipo have for centuries. U will see lightspeed gun control change. U know is true.
It wasn’t Ruminoni’s preference. To embrace and engage her PEACELOVING, Buddiating-Mudra Zen-self, and then slide quick-quick into she skintight spandex CAT-woman leotard (with flowing cape) to get a permit to carry and a holster for her arms, peppa spray and stunner.
It was absolutely Ruminoni’s pleasure. To see those confederate statutes of BIGOTS and MURDERERS and TERROISTS and SLAVEOWNERS come DOWN. To jettison baggage accrued assimilating and acculturating into the nation’s institutional racist river’s where she swam upstream sans fins or gills, filled with might and purpose. So, she stopped: Smiling and speaking enunciated English when entering a room of wypipo (to put them at ease), keeping hands in pockets whilst shopping, avoiding supermarket aisle’s with wypipo purses insight, looking at ANY IMAGERY of only wypipo, especially commercials and ads.
Free of some baggage, Ruminoni now: Says, “Yes, you may be my personal shopper, here’s my list” to any non-Black sales person asking, “May I help you?” as soon as she steps inside a store where POC don’t normally shop. Grins ONLY when she feels like it. Declares to buy Black and POC whenever possible, and to only spread her green $ plastic beyond that demographic with companies who’ve proven POC inclusiveness with philanthropic largesse.
Well now, take a breather. Ruminoni isn’t anti-wypipo. She just cooking up a lil’ somethin’ somethin’ in neurospeculative space that ain’t virtual, but for reals, making up for mindspace lost to assimilation over six decades. No mo’ dual realities for she.
It wasn’t Ruminoni’s fault. The slide rule of her mind expanded into a Hubble telescope the size of a neutrino whose mass is less than a billionth of a hydrogen atom, so small it passes through a light-year (about six trillion miles) of lead without hitting a single atom. Ruminoni aims to encompass the Sun, pass a portal through dark matter, and emerge triumphant into a galaxy set to explode, implode, spin, unfurl and awaken to a reality full of only SHE, dark and lovely, free, not at last, but at first breath.
KIM-MARIE WALKER is published in The Compassion Anthology, Loving Anthology, Forward Facing: A Zine for POC Macalester Alum, and forthcoming in NILVX I(III) and Talking Stick, Vol. 26. She is a VONA/Voices writing workshop alum; and blogs about her solo pilgrimage to historic U.S. transatlantic slave trade ports. For more information, please visit www.kimmariewalker.com.