An Anthology of Interracial Marriage: The Moor and the Venetian (Chapter 2)

Fond of mature, kind; that is you and more.

Oh, fellow! Of Africa: Alkebulan!

It is Garden of Eden; Mother of Mankind,

And Son reigns, raising leporine litters who will eat

Down rabbit holes and warrens come rain, shine.

Down there, “Sungura,” (as you Kikuyu say in Swahili) / rabbit meets in season

And mates; “Sungura ya nyama,” as you put it,

“Because, dear British girl, rabbits are not kept as pets.”

(End.)

“Because, dear British girl, rabbits are not kept as pets

and mates. Sungura ya nyama,” as you put it

down. There... sungura / rabbit meat's in season!

Down rabbit holes and warrens come rain, shine

and sun, rains, razing leporine litters who we'll eat.

It is Garden of Eden, Mother of Mankind,

Othello! Of Africa: Alkebulan!

Fond of much your kind; that is ewe and Moor.

(The excerpt of Shakespeare's Othello that inspired this poem:

IAGO

Zounds, sir, you’re robbed. For shame, put on your gown!

Your heart is burst. You have lost half your soul. Even now, now, very now, an old black ram

Is tupping your white ewe. Arise, arise!

Awake the snorting citizens with the bell,

Or else the devil will make a grandsire of you.

Arise, I say!)