Lepadah
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Natural Cane By Lepadah
His desire spread evenly
tendering the arc of each leg
the flimsy feel to silk paper
a woman stitched sides
tattooed chronicles twine
Cane lovingly tracing her tribal Ankh
kissing the faded scar upon the arm
guiding hands to Pandora box
toweling aqueous droplets
African Lemongrass roaming over both
bodies washed together
each one kneading human fields full of glory
awaken buried stories
told on these wishful moments
readings of Memnon
reacting Maul's running thru Barbados hills
caught child feet slipping weeds
over deep ditches
the scared stumbling into Rastafari camp
"dem damn Yankee kids get them butts ome. . ."
elder's traditional tale of the Goblin
our howl pitch poignant
in the hour of madness
lovers rapture maneuvers
perdure fingering silk souls
natural Cane a natural thing
© 2011 Lepadah
All rights reserved
tendering the arc of each leg
the flimsy feel to silk paper
a woman stitched sides
tattooed chronicles twine
Cane lovingly tracing her tribal Ankh
kissing the faded scar upon the arm
guiding hands to Pandora box
toweling aqueous droplets
African Lemongrass roaming over both
bodies washed together
each one kneading human fields full of glory
awaken buried stories
told on these wishful moments
readings of Memnon
reacting Maul's running thru Barbados hills
caught child feet slipping weeds
over deep ditches
the scared stumbling into Rastafari camp
"dem damn Yankee kids get them butts ome. . ."
elder's traditional tale of the Goblin
our howl pitch poignant
in the hour of madness
lovers rapture maneuvers
perdure fingering silk souls
natural Cane a natural thing
© 2011 Lepadah
All rights reserved
Monday, July 25, 2011
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Monday, July 18, 2011
Woman To The Night By Lepadah
Perfection told
illumination dead
breaking into a night embrace holding a sin
tales of one dark side
hidden within
public tattling
extract chronicles
fixing fiction to matter of fact
blur a blue blur
disclose the glutted moon
over head of men sitting on the community bench
gossipy lips somebody's business
aware Sheila's reception
a black woman in apartment B
minding her own
tending her own matters
ceremonial cleaning the gifted home
lights peering out into the lone eyes of neighboring windows
one can hear music playing
a smooth thump a thump a thump a thump . . .
feel of an Island carnival call to labor day
motioning one to a mango beat
seeking a view of her space
through thinly shirred curtains
swinging loom a body dancing alone
with a paint roller, a white turban around the head
framing her tiny dark face
pacing giggle to hips
up and down the wobbly ladder
running along the radiator
tight foot turn Cab Calloway
casting image larger than she
stalking the new fervor of this woman's happiness
cleaning, placing crystals in spiritual places
drums, wooden statues and precious materials
bought and given
laughing to familiar songs that seem to shake the thickness of a woman evolved
dismounting like a ballerina with weightiness
soon motions impeded
dimming light to dark respect for the thunder
slowly outing Marley
to hear the God's play the earth in the rain
© 2011 Lepadah
illumination dead
breaking into a night embrace holding a sin
tales of one dark side
hidden within
public tattling
extract chronicles
fixing fiction to matter of fact
blur a blue blur
disclose the glutted moon
over head of men sitting on the community bench
gossipy lips somebody's business
aware Sheila's reception
a black woman in apartment B
minding her own
tending her own matters
ceremonial cleaning the gifted home
lights peering out into the lone eyes of neighboring windows
one can hear music playing
a smooth thump a thump a thump a thump . . .
feel of an Island carnival call to labor day
motioning one to a mango beat
seeking a view of her space
through thinly shirred curtains
swinging loom a body dancing alone
with a paint roller, a white turban around the head
framing her tiny dark face
pacing giggle to hips
up and down the wobbly ladder
running along the radiator
tight foot turn Cab Calloway
casting image larger than she
stalking the new fervor of this woman's happiness
cleaning, placing crystals in spiritual places
drums, wooden statues and precious materials
bought and given
laughing to familiar songs that seem to shake the thickness of a woman evolved
dismounting like a ballerina with weightiness
soon motions impeded
dimming light to dark respect for the thunder
slowly outing Marley
to hear the God's play the earth in the rain
© 2011 Lepadah
Friday, July 15, 2011
"Rise Up For Haiti" song/spoken word by Lepadah new book "Saqqara Chronicles The Extended Journey."
Sak pase'
sak pase'
what did they do to us in slavery
took our sugar canes away
sak pase'
indemnification for the haitian
the French government must pay
make them wrong right
reckoning day
what did they do
what did they do
what did they do us
what did they do to our country
during the revolt
during slavery
make us pay
for liberty
make us pay
for our own soul
make us pay for the land they stole
buying back our political independence
what did they do
what did they do
what did they do to I
what did they do to us
the elite defeat
with them trickery
with them God's called guns
with them lie
made us sharecroppers
tree choppers
get them out
get them out
get them out
out of here
Aristide prominent plea
for World Court to settle France greed
this not belong to them
this not belong to them
give back what you owe
give back what you owe
to our country
to our country . . .
rise up
rise up to reclaim Haiti . . .
© 2011 Lepadah
sak pase'
what did they do to us in slavery
took our sugar canes away
sak pase'
indemnification for the haitian
the French government must pay
make them wrong right
reckoning day
what did they do
what did they do
what did they do us
what did they do to our country
during the revolt
during slavery
make us pay
for liberty
make us pay
for our own soul
make us pay for the land they stole
buying back our political independence
what did they do
what did they do
what did they do to I
what did they do to us
the elite defeat
with them trickery
with them God's called guns
with them lie
made us sharecroppers
tree choppers
get them out
get them out
get them out
out of here
Aristide prominent plea
for World Court to settle France greed
this not belong to them
this not belong to them
give back what you owe
give back what you owe
to our country
to our country . . .
rise up
rise up to reclaim Haiti . . .
© 2011 Lepadah
Rise Up For Haiti Song/Spoken Word by Lepadah
Rise Up For Haiti
Sak pase'
sak pase'
what did they do to us in slavery
took our sugar canes away
sak pase '
indemnification for the haitian
the French government must pay
make them wrong right
reckoning day
what did they do
what did they do
what did they do us
what did they do to our country
during the revolt
during slavery
make us pay
for liberty
make us pay
for our own soul
make us pay for the land they stole
buying back our political independence
what did they do
what did they do
what did they do to I
what did they do to us
the elite defeat
with them trickery
with them God's called guns
with them lie
made us sharecroppers
tree choppers
get them out
get them out
get them out
out of here
Aristide prominent plea
for World Court to settle France greed
this not belong to them
this not belong to them
give back what you owe
give back what you owe
to our country
to our country . . .
rise up
rise up to reclaim Haiti . . .
© 2011 Lepadah
Sak pase'
sak pase'
what did they do to us in slavery
took our sugar canes away
sak pase '
indemnification for the haitian
the French government must pay
make them wrong right
reckoning day
what did they do
what did they do
what did they do us
what did they do to our country
during the revolt
during slavery
make us pay
for liberty
make us pay
for our own soul
make us pay for the land they stole
buying back our political independence
what did they do
what did they do
what did they do to I
what did they do to us
the elite defeat
with them trickery
with them God's called guns
with them lie
made us sharecroppers
tree choppers
get them out
get them out
get them out
out of here
Aristide prominent plea
for World Court to settle France greed
this not belong to them
this not belong to them
give back what you owe
give back what you owe
to our country
to our country . . .
rise up
rise up to reclaim Haiti . . .
© 2011 Lepadah
A Musical Note About Michael Lizzmore "Rare Soul."
Friday, July 15, 2011 A Musical Note About Michael Lizzmore "Rare Soul." I got a secret you want to know, here it is a musical one. The musically gifted Michael Lizzmore is the best kept secret in Forest Hills, Queens better yet New York City. A true, pure, phenomenal virtuoso. His aptitude still undiscovered even though he was once a Capitol records artist with his hit single "Promised That You'll Wait" and has not been given the opportunity to blaze the music scene. It is with extreme pleasure and privilege to have him as my special friend. The nights spent listening to him tout aria to all intense altitudes with a refresh euphony is shear genius. The full sweet bravado of his voice is a true unique experience. Honing a signature staple with savvy flavor defining real rhythm and blues and good old fashion soul music. A recommended must listen to Michael Lizzmore's fluctuation and feel the sensation. Peace Lepadah
A Musical Note About Michael Lizzmore Rare Soul
I got a secret you want to know, here it is a musical one. The musically gifted Michael Lizzmore is the best kept secret in Forest Hills, Queens better yet New York City. A true, pure, phenomenal virtuoso. His aptitude still undiscovered even though he was once a Capitol records artist with his hit single "Promised That You'll Wait" and has not been given the opportunity to blaze the music scene. It is with extreme pleasure and privilege to have him as my special friend. The nights spent listening to him tout aria to all intense altitudes with a refresh euphony is shear genius. The full sweet bravado of his voice is a true unique experience. Honing a signature staple with savvy flavor defining real rhythm and blues and good old fashion soul music. A recommended must listen to Michael Lizzmore's fluctuation and feel the sensation.
Peace Lepadah
Peace Lepadah
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Action for World Court to take ACTION FOR HAITI
Revolutionary action to support efforts mandating and implementing guidelines of World Court for France to resolve their reparation for Haiti NOW!
Support for Namibia follow Dr. Chika Onyeani and Dr. Sam Nujoma. Justice and financial security. Recommended read "Capitalist Nigger" by Dr. Chika Onyeani.
Whoever is responsible for the hoax might have been inspired by a real attempt to get France to repay the debt Haiti was forced to pay to reimburse the owners of French plantations whose property was seized in the successful slave revolt that earned Haiti its independence in 1803. Seven years ago, during the nation’s bicentennial celebrations, President Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s government asked France to right this historical wrong.
As The Los Angeles Times reported from Port-au-Prince in 2003:
France owes this country exactly $21,685,135,571.48, the government figures — not counting interest, penalties or consideration of the suffering and indignity inflicted by slavery and colonization.
Paris swiftly rejected the demand for restitution when Haiti raised the issue in April, on the 200th anniversary of the death of Toussaint Louverture. A revered figure here, Louverture led fellow slaves in throwing off their French colonial oppressors.
Haiti is making a bicentennial spectacle of refusing to take no for an answer. In one of the most colorful campaigns to galvanize citizens in years, the country is awash in banners, bumper stickers, television ads and radio broadcasts demanding payback.
The following is a statement from the Haiti First, Haiti Now! campaign for reparations to Haiti, in the UK. The group demands reparations from the USA and France for the 150 million gold francs that France extorted from the Haitians as "compensation" for their revolution, and also for the illegal occupation by the USA in 1915, which is right now being continued in the aftermath of the disastrous earthquake, which aided by Haiti's imperialist-enforced poverty, led to the deaths of over 212,000 Haitian people. It speaks volumes that, whilst the USA sent troops into Haiti in the aftermath of this disaster, that socialist Cuba sent doctors - imperialism, no matter how much the bourgeois academics and apparatchiks wish to pretend, is still indeed the highest level of capitalism.
Haiti Makes Its Case for Reparations
By J. Damu
San Francisco Bay View
The meter is running at $34 per second
You've got to hand it to Haiti. Not only was it the world's first country of enslaved workers to stand up and demand their freedom and independence; now they are the world's first country to stand up to their former slavery-era master, France, and demand the return of its stolen wealth.
Everyone say "Amen."
Haiti's president and other government officials claim their country was held up at gunpoint in broad daylight in 1825 and now they want the admitted thief, France, to replace the stolen wealth to the tune of $21.7 billion. his, despite massive attempts, well documented elsewhere, by the United States and world lending institutions to destabilize and overthrow the democratically elected government of Jean Bertrand Aristide.
Government officials also say, due to forced efforts to hand over its wealth in a timely manner to France, the coerced payments so distorted and stunted the economy, Haiti feels the effects to this day. They also say, due to those efforts, Haiti became saddled with a form of class oppression that resembles racism.
In a soon to be published booklet provided to a U.S. reporter by the foreign press liaison to President Jean Bertrand Aristide, Haitian government officials dissect the 1825 "agreement" that initially forced Haiti to pay to France 150 million francs in exchange for liberty.
The booklet, like Haiti's restitution claim, is based largely on the research of Dr. Francis St. Hubert, a member of the government's Haiti Restitution Commission.
"I did most of my research in New York at the Columbia University Library and the Schomburg Center," Dr. Hubert said by phone from Port-au-Prince.
"We are pursuing this case from three different angles. We are doing publicity and educational campaigns, we are pursuing our claims through the diplomatic community, and we are preparing a legal case," he said.
"Haiti's claim is not really for reparations for slavery," said Ira Kurzban, Miami immigration attorney and Haiti's chief counsel in the U.S., "but for restitution specifically that happened in 1825. It is based on the French government's efforts to extract 150 million French francs (which is equal to $21 billion today) from an economy the French knew couldn't afford it, through the use of force. This is impermissible under international law."
"I can't tell you how we plan to proceed legally," he said by telephone. The Haitians will make their own announcement when they are ready, he said.
According to the booklet, which will soon be published under the name of the Haiti Restitution Commission, following the 1804 revolution that expelled France, Haiti was divided into two districts, northern and southern, but was re-united following the death of Henri Christophe in 1820.
Under the new president, Jean Pierre Boyer, diplomatic notes began to be exchanged with various French functionaries on the diplomatic recognition of Haiti.
Finally in 1825, France, which was being encouraged by former plantation owners to invade Haiti and re-enslave the Blacks, issued the Royal Ordinance of 1825, which called for the massive indemnity payments. In addition to the 150 million franc payment, France decreed that French ships and commercial goods entering and leaving Haiti would be discounted at 50 percent, thereby further weakening Haiti's ability to pay.
According to French officials at the time, the terms of the edict were non-negotiable. And to impress the seriousness of the situation upon the Haitians, France delivered the demands by 12 warships armed with 500 canons.
The 150-million-franc indemnity was based on profits earned by the colonists, according to a memorandum prepared by their lawyers. In 1789, Saint Domingue - all of Haiti and Santo Domingo - exported 150 million francs worth of products to France. In 1823 Haitian exports to France totaled 8.5 million francs, exports to England totaled 8.4 million francs, and exports to the United States totaled 13.1 million francs, for a total of 30 million francs.
The lawyers then claimed that one half of the 30 million francs went toward the costs of production, leaving 15 million francs as profit. The 15 million franc balance was multiplied by 10 (10 years of lost revenues for the French colonists due to the war for liberation), which coincidentally totals 150 million francs, the value of exports in 1789.
To make matters worse for Haiti, the French anticipated and planned for Haiti to secure a loan to pay the first installment on the indemnity. Haiti was forced to borrow the 30 million francs from a French bank that then deducted the management fees from the face value of the loan and charged interest rates so exorbitant that after payment was completed, Haiti was still 6 million francs short.
The 150-million-franc indemnity represented France's annual budget and 10 years of revenue for Haiti. One study estimates the indemnity was 55 million more francs than was needed to restore the 793 sugar plantations, 3,117 coffee estates and 3,906 indigo, cotton and other crop plantations destroyed during the war for independence.
By contrast, when it became clear France would no longer be in a position to capitalize on further westward expansion in the Western hemisphere, they agreed to sell the Louisiana Territory, an area 74 times the surface area of Haiti, to the U.S. for just 60 million francs, less than half the Haitian indemnity.
Even though France later lowered the indemnity payment to 90 million francs, the cycle of forcing Haiti to borrow from French banks to make the payments chained the Black nation to perpetual poverty. Haiti did not finish paying her indemnity debt until 1947!
According to the Haitian government's reparations booklet, the immediate consequence of the debt payment on the Haitian population was greater misery. The first thing President Boyer did to help pay the debt was to increase from 12 to 16 percent all tariffs on imports to offset the French discount.
The next step Boyer took was to declare the indemnity to be a national debt to be paid by all the citizens of Haiti. Then he immediately brought into being the Rural Code.
By Haitian First Lady Mildred Aristide's account in her book, "Child Domestic Service in Haiti and its Historical Underpinnings," the Rural Code laid the basis for the legal apartheid between rural and urban society in Haiti. With the Rural Code, the economically dominant class of merchants, government officials and military officers who lived in the cities legally established themselves as Haiti's ruling class.
Under the Rural Code agricultural workers were chained to the land and allowed little or no opportunity to move from place to place. Socializing was made illegal after midnight, and the Haitian farmer who did not own property was obligated to sign a three-, six- or nine-year labor contract with a large property owner. The code also banned small-scale commerce, so that agricultural workers would produce crops strictly for export.
The Haitian Rural Code was all embracing, governing the lives not only of farmers but of children as well.
The Rural Code was specifically designed to regulate rural life in order to more efficiently produce export crops with which to pay the indemnity.
The taxes levied on production were also used predominantly to pay the indemnity and not to build schools nor to provide other social services to the generators of this great wealth, the peasants.
Leading Haitian activists in the U.S. claim that between 1804 and 1990, when President Aristide was first elected, a grand total of 32 high schools were built in Haiti, all within urban settings. Since then, more than 200 have been built, they say, most in the countryside.
To this day, the discrimination between rural and urban areas takes the form of color discrimination by light-skinned Blacks toward darker-skinned Blacks, and it remains intense.
St. Hubert and the national bank compute the exact amount Haiti is demanding from France as $21,685,135,571.48, at 5 percent annual interest.
"France is getting off easy," St. Hubert told a U.S. newspaper. If Haiti charged 7.5 percent interest on the money, "France would owe $4 trillion today and much more tomorrow.
"The French can debate whether they want to pay as long as they like," he said, " but at 5 percent interest, it will cost them $34 per second."
Support for Namibia follow Dr. Chika Onyeani and Dr. Sam Nujoma. Justice and financial security. Recommended read "Capitalist Nigger" by Dr. Chika Onyeani.
Whoever is responsible for the hoax might have been inspired by a real attempt to get France to repay the debt Haiti was forced to pay to reimburse the owners of French plantations whose property was seized in the successful slave revolt that earned Haiti its independence in 1803. Seven years ago, during the nation’s bicentennial celebrations, President Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s government asked France to right this historical wrong.
As The Los Angeles Times reported from Port-au-Prince in 2003:
France owes this country exactly $21,685,135,571.48, the government figures — not counting interest, penalties or consideration of the suffering and indignity inflicted by slavery and colonization.
Paris swiftly rejected the demand for restitution when Haiti raised the issue in April, on the 200th anniversary of the death of Toussaint Louverture. A revered figure here, Louverture led fellow slaves in throwing off their French colonial oppressors.
Haiti is making a bicentennial spectacle of refusing to take no for an answer. In one of the most colorful campaigns to galvanize citizens in years, the country is awash in banners, bumper stickers, television ads and radio broadcasts demanding payback.
The following is a statement from the Haiti First, Haiti Now! campaign for reparations to Haiti, in the UK. The group demands reparations from the USA and France for the 150 million gold francs that France extorted from the Haitians as "compensation" for their revolution, and also for the illegal occupation by the USA in 1915, which is right now being continued in the aftermath of the disastrous earthquake, which aided by Haiti's imperialist-enforced poverty, led to the deaths of over 212,000 Haitian people. It speaks volumes that, whilst the USA sent troops into Haiti in the aftermath of this disaster, that socialist Cuba sent doctors - imperialism, no matter how much the bourgeois academics and apparatchiks wish to pretend, is still indeed the highest level of capitalism.
Haiti Makes Its Case for Reparations
By J. Damu
San Francisco Bay View
The meter is running at $34 per second
You've got to hand it to Haiti. Not only was it the world's first country of enslaved workers to stand up and demand their freedom and independence; now they are the world's first country to stand up to their former slavery-era master, France, and demand the return of its stolen wealth.
Everyone say "Amen."
Haiti's president and other government officials claim their country was held up at gunpoint in broad daylight in 1825 and now they want the admitted thief, France, to replace the stolen wealth to the tune of $21.7 billion. his, despite massive attempts, well documented elsewhere, by the United States and world lending institutions to destabilize and overthrow the democratically elected government of Jean Bertrand Aristide.
Government officials also say, due to forced efforts to hand over its wealth in a timely manner to France, the coerced payments so distorted and stunted the economy, Haiti feels the effects to this day. They also say, due to those efforts, Haiti became saddled with a form of class oppression that resembles racism.
In a soon to be published booklet provided to a U.S. reporter by the foreign press liaison to President Jean Bertrand Aristide, Haitian government officials dissect the 1825 "agreement" that initially forced Haiti to pay to France 150 million francs in exchange for liberty.
The booklet, like Haiti's restitution claim, is based largely on the research of Dr. Francis St. Hubert, a member of the government's Haiti Restitution Commission.
"I did most of my research in New York at the Columbia University Library and the Schomburg Center," Dr. Hubert said by phone from Port-au-Prince.
"We are pursuing this case from three different angles. We are doing publicity and educational campaigns, we are pursuing our claims through the diplomatic community, and we are preparing a legal case," he said.
"Haiti's claim is not really for reparations for slavery," said Ira Kurzban, Miami immigration attorney and Haiti's chief counsel in the U.S., "but for restitution specifically that happened in 1825. It is based on the French government's efforts to extract 150 million French francs (which is equal to $21 billion today) from an economy the French knew couldn't afford it, through the use of force. This is impermissible under international law."
"I can't tell you how we plan to proceed legally," he said by telephone. The Haitians will make their own announcement when they are ready, he said.
According to the booklet, which will soon be published under the name of the Haiti Restitution Commission, following the 1804 revolution that expelled France, Haiti was divided into two districts, northern and southern, but was re-united following the death of Henri Christophe in 1820.
Under the new president, Jean Pierre Boyer, diplomatic notes began to be exchanged with various French functionaries on the diplomatic recognition of Haiti.
Finally in 1825, France, which was being encouraged by former plantation owners to invade Haiti and re-enslave the Blacks, issued the Royal Ordinance of 1825, which called for the massive indemnity payments. In addition to the 150 million franc payment, France decreed that French ships and commercial goods entering and leaving Haiti would be discounted at 50 percent, thereby further weakening Haiti's ability to pay.
According to French officials at the time, the terms of the edict were non-negotiable. And to impress the seriousness of the situation upon the Haitians, France delivered the demands by 12 warships armed with 500 canons.
The 150-million-franc indemnity was based on profits earned by the colonists, according to a memorandum prepared by their lawyers. In 1789, Saint Domingue - all of Haiti and Santo Domingo - exported 150 million francs worth of products to France. In 1823 Haitian exports to France totaled 8.5 million francs, exports to England totaled 8.4 million francs, and exports to the United States totaled 13.1 million francs, for a total of 30 million francs.
The lawyers then claimed that one half of the 30 million francs went toward the costs of production, leaving 15 million francs as profit. The 15 million franc balance was multiplied by 10 (10 years of lost revenues for the French colonists due to the war for liberation), which coincidentally totals 150 million francs, the value of exports in 1789.
To make matters worse for Haiti, the French anticipated and planned for Haiti to secure a loan to pay the first installment on the indemnity. Haiti was forced to borrow the 30 million francs from a French bank that then deducted the management fees from the face value of the loan and charged interest rates so exorbitant that after payment was completed, Haiti was still 6 million francs short.
The 150-million-franc indemnity represented France's annual budget and 10 years of revenue for Haiti. One study estimates the indemnity was 55 million more francs than was needed to restore the 793 sugar plantations, 3,117 coffee estates and 3,906 indigo, cotton and other crop plantations destroyed during the war for independence.
By contrast, when it became clear France would no longer be in a position to capitalize on further westward expansion in the Western hemisphere, they agreed to sell the Louisiana Territory, an area 74 times the surface area of Haiti, to the U.S. for just 60 million francs, less than half the Haitian indemnity.
Even though France later lowered the indemnity payment to 90 million francs, the cycle of forcing Haiti to borrow from French banks to make the payments chained the Black nation to perpetual poverty. Haiti did not finish paying her indemnity debt until 1947!
According to the Haitian government's reparations booklet, the immediate consequence of the debt payment on the Haitian population was greater misery. The first thing President Boyer did to help pay the debt was to increase from 12 to 16 percent all tariffs on imports to offset the French discount.
The next step Boyer took was to declare the indemnity to be a national debt to be paid by all the citizens of Haiti. Then he immediately brought into being the Rural Code.
By Haitian First Lady Mildred Aristide's account in her book, "Child Domestic Service in Haiti and its Historical Underpinnings," the Rural Code laid the basis for the legal apartheid between rural and urban society in Haiti. With the Rural Code, the economically dominant class of merchants, government officials and military officers who lived in the cities legally established themselves as Haiti's ruling class.
Under the Rural Code agricultural workers were chained to the land and allowed little or no opportunity to move from place to place. Socializing was made illegal after midnight, and the Haitian farmer who did not own property was obligated to sign a three-, six- or nine-year labor contract with a large property owner. The code also banned small-scale commerce, so that agricultural workers would produce crops strictly for export.
The Haitian Rural Code was all embracing, governing the lives not only of farmers but of children as well.
The Rural Code was specifically designed to regulate rural life in order to more efficiently produce export crops with which to pay the indemnity.
The taxes levied on production were also used predominantly to pay the indemnity and not to build schools nor to provide other social services to the generators of this great wealth, the peasants.
Leading Haitian activists in the U.S. claim that between 1804 and 1990, when President Aristide was first elected, a grand total of 32 high schools were built in Haiti, all within urban settings. Since then, more than 200 have been built, they say, most in the countryside.
To this day, the discrimination between rural and urban areas takes the form of color discrimination by light-skinned Blacks toward darker-skinned Blacks, and it remains intense.
St. Hubert and the national bank compute the exact amount Haiti is demanding from France as $21,685,135,571.48, at 5 percent annual interest.
"France is getting off easy," St. Hubert told a U.S. newspaper. If Haiti charged 7.5 percent interest on the money, "France would owe $4 trillion today and much more tomorrow.
"The French can debate whether they want to pay as long as they like," he said, " but at 5 percent interest, it will cost them $34 per second."
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Evaporated Impression Of The Vampire And The Succubus by Lepadah
Left like one thought he would
a summer parboil
drape a curtsy
view severing a dark haze
presenting the night vampire
he occupied a large empty travel bag
vein nigh his succubus
moving boxes, shacking trash bags
ferreting some other man's overcoats and wears
await divine fellatio
attend behind him from room to room
leering at his being lost
inside an emptied bedroom
unraveling the bald soul
a isolated contour
standing in the slight light
streaming out the bathroom
forsake covering with only white socks
standing breathless
bide the magically deliciousness has happened
evaporated impression she was there
© 2011 Lepadah
All rights reserved
This work may not be reproduced without written permission
a summer parboil
drape a curtsy
view severing a dark haze
presenting the night vampire
he occupied a large empty travel bag
vein nigh his succubus
moving boxes, shacking trash bags
ferreting some other man's overcoats and wears
await divine fellatio
attend behind him from room to room
leering at his being lost
inside an emptied bedroom
unraveling the bald soul
a isolated contour
standing in the slight light
streaming out the bathroom
forsake covering with only white socks
standing breathless
bide the magically deliciousness has happened
evaporated impression she was there
© 2011 Lepadah
All rights reserved
This work may not be reproduced without written permission
Evaporated Impression Of The Vampire And Succubus by Lepadah
Left like one thought he would
a summer parboil
drape a curtsy
view severing a dark haze
presenting the night vampire
he occupied a large empty travel bag
vein nigh his succubus
moving boxes, shacking trash bags
ferreting some other man's overcoats and wears
await divine fellatio
attend behind him from room to room
leering at his being lost
inside an emptied bedroom
unraveling the bald soul
a isolated contour standing
in the slight light
streaming out the bathroom
forsake covering with only white socks
standing breathless
bide the magically deliciousness has happened
evaporated impression she was there
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fine fine surgically fine writing. really enjoyed.
guy
a summer parboil
drape a curtsy
view severing a dark haze
presenting the night vampire
he occupied a large empty travel bag
vein nigh his succubus
moving boxes, shacking trash bags
ferreting some other man's overcoats and wears
await divine fellatio
attend behind him from room to room
leering at his being lost
inside an emptied bedroom
unraveling the bald soul
a isolated contour standing
in the slight light
streaming out the bathroom
forsake covering with only white socks
standing breathless
bide the magically deliciousness has happened
evaporated impression she was there
© 2011 Lepadah
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fine fine surgically fine writing. really enjoyed.
guy
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
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Monday, July 11, 2011
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Monday, July 11, 2011 Comments "The Scorch Of The Hot Crotch" by Lepadah Hello,lepadahxxx
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Once sneaking a lunchtime fondle burning parts
return visit to camouflaged amusement
isolated in the deemed pantheon of a narcissist
a ladies lavatory
fastening the stall
reeling against the back agitated unbuckling of slacks the girly glee massaging quickly the clitoris that throbbed to a swell
mutiny of three itchy fingers
glob with embrocation hard thumping a buttock balking
catching a naughty moan one hand employed tween the wet warmly soaked crotch
another sinking into her Brooks Brothers shirt
nestling a steady breast pinch to harden the halo
hurrying to alight
realizing she was still at work . . . © 2011 Lepadah
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Reply to 57340.1 wow. first of all, who could pass up a title like that. and the poem more than lives up to it. terrific stuff. g From: cumin (cumin)
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Just one thing puzzles me about this poem lepadah....what exactly is a ...... "Brooks Brothers shirt" and where can I buy one? ;) From: GuyBlakeKett (GuyBlakeKett)
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Reply to 57340.3 "brooks brothers" is a high-end conservative purveyor of men's very tailored clothing -- sort of USA's Savile Row... (my grandmother bought my brother and me our first - and as it turns out only - Brooks Brothers suits when we were 13: sort of an Episcopalian bar mitzvah. :-)
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Reply to 57340.4 Aaah thank you Guy.....this makes the poem even more intriguing. ;)
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Once sneaking a lunchtime fondle burning parts
return visit to camouflaged amusement
isolated in the deemed pantheon of a narcissist
a ladies lavatory
fastening the stall
reeling against the back agitated unbuckling of slacks the girly glee massaging quickly the clitoris that throbbed to a swell
mutiny of three itchy fingers
glob with embrocation hard thumping a buttock balking
catching a naughty moan one hand employed tween the wet warmly soaked crotch
another sinking into her Brooks Brothers shirt
nestling a steady breast pinch to harden the halo
hurrying to alight
realizing she was still at work . . . © 2011 Lepadah
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Reply to 57340.1 wow. first of all, who could pass up a title like that. and the poem more than lives up to it. terrific stuff. g From: cumin (cumin)
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Just one thing puzzles me about this poem lepadah....what exactly is a ...... "Brooks Brothers shirt" and where can I buy one? ;) From: GuyBlakeKett (GuyBlakeKett)
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Reply to 57340.3 "brooks brothers" is a high-end conservative purveyor of men's very tailored clothing -- sort of USA's Savile Row... (my grandmother bought my brother and me our first - and as it turns out only - Brooks Brothers suits when we were 13: sort of an Episcopalian bar mitzvah. :-)
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Reply to 57340.4 Aaah thank you Guy.....this makes the poem even more intriguing. ;)
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57340.1 (1 of 7)
Once sneaking a lunchtime fondle
burning parts
return visit to camouflaged amusement
isolated in the deemed pantheon
of a narcissist
a ladies lavatory
fastening the stall
reeling against the back
agitated unbuckling of slacks
the girly glee massaging quickly the clitoris
that throbbed to a swell
mutiny of three itchy fingers
glob with embrocation
hard thumping a buttock balking
catching a naughty moan
one hand employed tween the wet warmly soaked crotch
another sinking into her Brooks Brothers shirt
nestling a steady breast
pinch to harden the halo
hurrying to alight
realizing she was still at work . . .
© 2011 Lepadah
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wow. first of all, who could pass up a title like that. and the poem more than lives up to it. terrific stuff.
g
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Posted: Jul 09 11 06:41 AM
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Just one thing puzzles me about this poem lepadah....what exactly is a ......
"Brooks Brothers shirt"
and where can I buy one?
;)
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Posted: Jul 09 11 07:35 AM
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"brooks brothers" is a high-end conservative purveyor of men's very tailored clothing -- sort of USA's Savile Row... (my grandmother bought my brother and me our first - and as it turns out only - Brooks Brothers suits when we were 13: sort of an Episcopalian bar mitzvah. :-)
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Aaah thank you Guy.....this makes the poem even more intriguing. ;)
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From: lepadahxxx (lepadahxxx)
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Posted: Jul 07 11 04:21 PM
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57340.1 (1 of 7)
Once sneaking a lunchtime fondle
burning parts
return visit to camouflaged amusement
isolated in the deemed pantheon
of a narcissist
a ladies lavatory
fastening the stall
reeling against the back
agitated unbuckling of slacks
the girly glee massaging quickly the clitoris
that throbbed to a swell
mutiny of three itchy fingers
glob with embrocation
hard thumping a buttock balking
catching a naughty moan
one hand employed tween the wet warmly soaked crotch
another sinking into her Brooks Brothers shirt
nestling a steady breast
pinch to harden the halo
hurrying to alight
realizing she was still at work . . .
© 2011 Lepadah
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Posted: Jul 09 11 06:08 AM
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57340.2 (2 of 7)
Reply to 57340.1
wow. first of all, who could pass up a title like that. and the poem more than lives up to it. terrific stuff.
g
From: cumin (cumin)
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Posted: Jul 09 11 06:41 AM
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57340.3 (3 of 7)
Reply to 57340.1
Just one thing puzzles me about this poem lepadah....what exactly is a ......
"Brooks Brothers shirt"
and where can I buy one?
;)
From: GuyBlakeKett (GuyBlakeKett)
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Posted: Jul 09 11 07:35 AM
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57340.4 (4 of 7)
Reply to 57340.3
"brooks brothers" is a high-end conservative purveyor of men's very tailored clothing -- sort of USA's Savile Row... (my grandmother bought my brother and me our first - and as it turns out only - Brooks Brothers suits when we were 13: sort of an Episcopalian bar mitzvah. :-)
From: cumin (cumin)
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57340.5 (5 of 7)
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Aaah thank you Guy.....this makes the poem even more intriguing. ;)
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Friday, July 8, 2011
New York City 100 Degrees And The Scorch Of The Hot Crotch
Once sneaking a lunchtime fondle burning parts
return visit to camouflaged amusement
isolated in the deemed pantheon of a narcissist
a ladies lavatory
fastening the stall
reeling against the back agitated unbuckling of slacks the girly glee massaging quickly the clitoris that throbbed to a swell
mutiny of three itchy fingers
glob with embrocation hard thumping a buttock balking
catching a naughty moan one hand employed tween the wet warmly soaked crotch
another sinking into her Brooks Brothers shirt
nestling a steady breast pinch to harden the halo
hurrying to alight
realizing she was still at work . . .
© 2011 Lepadah
return visit to camouflaged amusement
isolated in the deemed pantheon of a narcissist
a ladies lavatory
fastening the stall
reeling against the back agitated unbuckling of slacks the girly glee massaging quickly the clitoris that throbbed to a swell
mutiny of three itchy fingers
glob with embrocation hard thumping a buttock balking
catching a naughty moan one hand employed tween the wet warmly soaked crotch
another sinking into her Brooks Brothers shirt
nestling a steady breast pinch to harden the halo
hurrying to alight
realizing she was still at work . . .
© 2011 Lepadah
Thursday, July 7, 2011
New York City 100 Degrees And The Scorch Of The Hot Crotch
Once sneaking a lunchtime fondle
burning parts
return visit to camouflaged amusement
isolated in the deemed pantheon
of a narcissist
a ladies lavatory
fastening the stall
reeling against the back
agitated unbuckling of slacks
the girly glee massaging quickly the clitoris
that throbbed to a swell
mutiny of three itchy fingers
glob with embrocation
hard thumping a buttock balking
catching a naughty moan
one hand employed tween the wet warmly soaked crotch
another sinking into her Brooks Brothers shirt
nestling a steady breast
pinch to harden the halo
hurrying to alight
realizing she was still at work . . .
© 2011 Lepadah
burning parts
return visit to camouflaged amusement
isolated in the deemed pantheon
of a narcissist
a ladies lavatory
fastening the stall
reeling against the back
agitated unbuckling of slacks
the girly glee massaging quickly the clitoris
that throbbed to a swell
mutiny of three itchy fingers
glob with embrocation
hard thumping a buttock balking
catching a naughty moan
one hand employed tween the wet warmly soaked crotch
another sinking into her Brooks Brothers shirt
nestling a steady breast
pinch to harden the halo
hurrying to alight
realizing she was still at work . . .
© 2011 Lepadah
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Bob Holman and Margery Snyder About Poets
Bob Holman wants to be friends with you on Facebook.
Bob Holman
That's what I'm talking about. . . now where is Margery Snyder? lol
That's ok Obatala held a winning spot in IBPC my mentor.
Much love to About Poets always hard. Come on IBPC a few times up when the win?
Robin already nominated the triple X.
Peace Lepadah
Bob Holman
That's what I'm talking about. . . now where is Margery Snyder? lol
That's ok Obatala held a winning spot in IBPC my mentor.
Much love to About Poets always hard. Come on IBPC a few times up when the win?
Robin already nominated the triple X.
Peace Lepadah
Monday, July 4, 2011
Poets
Lydia Enjoyed ur company last nite. (best rendition of The Jerk-where did that come from?). Jazz, stories, politics,trying to figure it out? Thats what i like. Sorry if i talked too much. Dont have enuf smart people to converse w. Thanks for the chance. Good luck w ur new apt. I like txt sometimes. Check ur in box. Il send u a peep now & then. Matt 
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