Bring Home the Oolies

This poem is about what women want, the nature of resource acquisition in family and a reflection on the story of Txamsem.
 

The "max" or sun-box, a Tsimshian dream object.

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   Joshua Brown



I cannot tell the time to rhyme

For if my soul had bought the lime

And cast it out to foster growth

I'd see that raven and I quoth:


Trickster, trickster that's my name

Bringing masks to hide my shame

Shame on you and shame on me

For women's lust, from it we flee


Lust to live and not kill self

Lust to breed and gather wealth

Here we run from them their will

To push us hot; to pay the bill


Grow up fast and fight back hard

Against machines bewarned by bard

Dreams galore if we could wake

Dreams of burning, godless lake


Push and prod by Tsimshian lot

Tribes that speak the Smalgyax thought

Divide the raven, divide and reign

Divide the self, accept the pain


Potshot sent across the bow

A violent anti-natal vow

To kill the two point two estate

And end the lineage. Chosen fate.


Could bots become our progin kin?

Could we by life in marriage sin?

Thrust upon that progress hard

Come on, join in, escape the yard!


Me Plus, what? And what plus me

That darkened murky process see

Awake to her and wake her up

Our self, against the lazy shlup.


Chief estate inherit name

A dying, orange-ish, flickering flame

Mocked by her who pretends dead

To take by lust and give him head


Bite the bullet, take the reigns

Embrace the name or be in chains

To time allow by virtue lost

That ghoulish me, his marriage cost.


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📅 Written October 25, 2023

📍 Written in Aurora, Colorado near the West Toll Gate Creek

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Thanks for reading this poem! In the Tsimshian Texts, the mythology starts with a Chieftainess who lusts after a new man. I also just happened to be thinking about what makes men great husbands and fathers including what biological needs women have in relationships. There is a concept called Me Plus, that is part of deconstructing female dating tactics within the manosphere, and the idea is related to feeling like you are not good enough to be friends with people or in a relationship with a woman or man without bringing something to the table. And the reality is that, that is partly true, not that you aren't good enough, but that it is essential that you respect and understand the empirical parts of collaborating within friendships and relationships. 

Be respectful of yourself and your needs and desires, but respect also the cold hard facts of how the family and children actually will survive and thrive. Whether in the context of a modern consumer state but even in the hunter and fisher context, you have to think, plan ahead and provide for your family and children. Bring Home the Oolies is the Tsimshian version of Bring Home the Bacon!

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