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This is a poem for you, my father. <br/>
For you whom I dearly love for {{anchor|PoemDump}}dumping <br/>
a century of trauma on me.<br/>
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For all-- <br/>
that you got from your own father, <br/>
who witnessed how the American dream <br/>
became the American nightmare for him, <br/>
with his father being killed while mining. <br/>
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For all-- <br/>
that you got from your own mother, <br/>
whose home was burned down by the ] <br/>
at the time you were still a baby <br/>
in her womb, <br/>
that was taking in all the fear <br/>
circulating through her body. <br/>
<br/>
You thought <br/>
— playing a guitar like the hippies — <br/>
that you could be as free <br/>
as they could afford to be, <br/>
and let bygones be bygones, <br/>
the way ] did. <br/>
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But you were not aware that the past <br/>
has been circulating through your veins, too.<br/>
I'm sorry for having to tell you. <br/>
<br/>
Because you were not aware, you left me, <br/>
aged 5 only, in an asthma hospital. <br/>
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The caretakers there didn't talk Slovene, <br/>
the only language I understood at 5. <br/>
It didn't occur to you that a child at 5 <br/>
is not yet able to be an international socialist? <br/>
<br/>
I was one year younger then your father, <br/>
when he was abandoned by his father, your grandpa, <br/>
because he was killed in a mine. <br/>
<br/>
You were not killed, <br/>
but because they didn't allow you <br/>
to visit me in the hospital <br/>
for three weeks, eternity for me, <br/>
I felt like you were killed <br/>
or, worse, I must have done <br/>
something so terribly wrong <br/>
to be punished with the worst punishment, <br/>
an excommunication from my tribe, <br/>
my mum and you, <br/>
my dad. <br/>
<br/>
That's why I understand you, ], too.<br/>
And ], I was not in a concentration camp, <br/>
but to me, the 5-years-old-me, it felt like <br/>
I was in one, too, and, <br/>
yes, I did starve there because <br/>
I felt what's the point, when I was <br/>
let down, not only by my own tribe, <br/>
but by my only language, as well. <br/>
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My Poem About Human-Caused Trauma (It's hidden and you have to click to read it
This is a poem for you, my father. For you whom I dearly love for dumping a century of trauma on me.
For all-- that you got from your own father, who witnessed how the American dream became the American nightmare for him, with his father being killed while mining.
For all-- that you got from your own mother, whose home was burned down by the Italian 2 Army at the time you were still a baby in her womb, that was taking in all the fear circulating through her body.
You thought — playing a guitar like the hippies — that you could be as free as they could afford to be, and let bygones be bygones, the way Tomaž Šalamun did.
But you were not aware that the past has been circulating through your veins, too. I'm sorry for having to tell you.
Because you were not aware, you left me, aged 5 only, in an asthma hospital.
The caretakers there didn't talk Slovene, the only language I understood at 5. It didn't occur to you that a child at 5 is not yet able to be an international socialist?
I was one year younger then your father, when he was abandoned by his father, your grandpa, because he was killed in a mine.
You were not killed, but because they didn't allow you to visit me in the hospital for three weeks, eternity for me, I felt like you were killed or, worse, I must have done something so terribly wrong to be punished with the worst punishment, an excommunication from my tribe, my mum and you, my dad.
That's why I understand you, Srečko Kosovel, too. And Boris Pahor, I was not in a concentration camp, but to me, the 5-years-old-me, it felt like I was in one, too, and, yes, I did starve there because I felt what's the point, when I was let down, not only by my own tribe, but by my only language, as well.
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A Story About a Small Nation's (False) Self-Perception
This story will tell you what you always wanted to know, but was afraid to ask ;-) about the origin of Slovene self-perception: "little Davids fighting the big Goliaths". But is it really only a (false) self-perception? Let's see the evidence.
After WWI, Slovenes ended up with a quarter of ethnic body amputated according to the secret plan devised by Western "Allies" who promised the amputated Slovene part to Italians to lure them into the First World War and the Front on the mainly Slovene land, although - ironically - called the Italian Front that was described by Western literary hero Hemingway who was heroically unaware of the suffering inflicted by both armies upon the natives, who were resettled and sent to Italy to civilan refugee camps where instead of finding peace they found out they were enemies because they did not find the big post-war amputation plan very appealing.
Lipušček, U. (2012) Sacro egoismo: Slovenci v krempljih tajnega londonskega pakta 1915, Cankarjeva založba, Ljubljana. ISBN 978-961-231-871-0
Cresciani, Gianfranco (2004) Clash of civilisations, Italian Historical Society Journal, Vol.12, No.2, p.4
Less then a quarter of century later, without a quarter of body, the nation was, as the only present-day European nation, furtherly trisected and annexed during Second World War by German Nazis, Italian Fascists and Hungary, as shown on the next map.
War crimes committed against the civilian population in Slovenia by Fascist Italy were never persecuted after the war. And America had an active role in this. So I dared to ask the U.S.A. ambassador Joseph A. Mussomeli about it.
So I dared to ask the U.S.A. ambassador about it here
to associations between ideas of three groups of political/economical philosophers
from three Western European traditions (i.e. Latin, Anglo-Saxon, and Teutonic), three modes of inspecting bad things (including war crimes), and three kinds of toilet shapes in the respective traditions. Caution: Not for easily offended eyes
Tell me the shape of a toilet you are sitting on, and I will tell you what is your ideology
Hi DancingPhilosopher, as long as you don't explain what color means what percentage this map remains incomprehensible.--Ies (talk) 16:10, 12 February 2013 (UTC) Hi les, thank you for reminding me that I forgot to update the image description. I updated it today. See here; I hope it makes sense now.--DancingPhilosopher (talk) 15:08, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
