FUSANG

Portugal could now begin to look further across the oceans to the west-
If one small island could yield such wealth
what untold riches might be made from new colonies across the sea?
After all, Columbus found plutonium,
Plato found zinc,
Cabrillo found a monument,
and Pizarro found everything
except a gold encrusted kitchen sink.

Gold! shiny nuggets
Gold. fine dust
Gold! bricks and bullion
Silver sweet eyes, the Inca dies,
and the Spaniard laughs on a pile of bloody Gold.

Dr. Kangido found one sample to be dominated by aragonite crystals,
another by vibrant calcite.
As he picked apart the shining parts,
the treasure fleet ran aground.
When admiral Zhou Wen reached the Cape Verde islands
He had already sailed around a substantial part of the globe,
And must have known that the mysterious land of Fusang
Lay to the west of him.

Copper luster
and Aztec lust
steel swords
that ran through native guts.
The millenium is over,
the traitors have been hung,
the Chinese are coming,
and the Spaniards are gone.