Checking out me History

• “Dem tell me

  Dem tell me wha dem want to tell me”
• “But now I checking out me own history

  I carving out me identity“
• Bandage up me eye with me own history
• Dem tell me bout 1066 and all dat
• Dick Whittington and he cat
• Toussaint de beacon
• De cow who jump over de moom
• “Nanny de maroon”

  “mountain dream“
• Columbus and 1492
• “Mary Seacole“

  ”a healing star”
• Who wrote Checking out me History?

  John Agard