put my foot in it

For Sure

For sure I’ll get fed up

without even waiting

for things to ripen

like a good camembert

So until then I’ll just go

and put my foot in it

or grab by the collar

everything I can’t stand

In capital letters:

colonization

civilization

assimilation

and all that

Meanwhile

you’ll often hear me

slam the door

~from Pigments by Léon-Gontran Damas, translated by Franklin Rosemont