ethnocentricism in the scope of human history

from beat alice anthology (2009​-​2014) vol. 1 by Beat Alice

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Secret cities ancient
all buried I the ground
sacred civilizations
buried in a mound
history lost to the western mind
with unknown empires lost in time
the mayan temples
and nani waiya, too
kajuraho and stone henge to boot
calhokia, hurrapah, and the great wall, too
if the terra cotta soldiers could talk
they'd say
wahh-oooo
were all familiar
with the cradle of the west
in our ethnocentric
sense of the best
we excavate our history
as a reflection of ourselves
we dig up our dead and
analyze their shells
oh, mesopotamia and babylon, too
the greeks, the phoenecians
and etruscans to boot
ancient sumaria and gazas tombs
if the pharaohs slaves could talk
theyd say wah-ooo
homo sapiens have been around for a while
from africa to far past the nile
and we have had cultures that built monuments
and we have had cultures
that left no foot print
and how do we measure
the greatness of ourselves
in the scope of lost history
whos stories are untelled
if unknown voices could talk
theyd say wah-ooo

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from beat alice anthology (2009​-​2014) vol. 1, released July 23, 2015

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