When you take off your virtual reality
goggles
and look through your reality
eyes
then take a deeper step back you’re looking through your
I
when you get beyond your me the soul views
you
begin to see the eyes read virtually with the I
traveling through what we see in the vehicle me
me me me waves become feet on the sole of a ship on this sea
helmsman tell me beyond the you is there an…other
further
see
Speaking of overseas that’s where Cortez came to see
Aztec humanity as his gold and his role to enslave
with metal chest and shiny sword he was sworn
to the god he knew the crown and cross
the gold that rules in measurements of race and hate
the native fate pre-contemplated in faith
to dominance and dominion over thee Golden Rule
to the victor goes the spoils now oils the machinery of we
no goddess’s fait accompli
brings us to the sole of the other Nike…
another Cortez without a soul in steps that run and jump and play
but land in a shallow end
a shoe so named because a competitor had an “Azteca Gold”
so co-owner chose Cortez for he had, “Kicked the shit out of the Aztecs”