Cook was cooked

for Sol Blackwood

Hawaiʻi, 14 February 1779
Captain James Cook’s head
served up at romantic
Valentine’s Day dinner.

No.

Cook was killed¹
as karma decreed
for attempted kidnap
of a Chief

then boiled down
for his bones —
seat of a man’s
power.

Even a cannibal
(which they weren’t)
would pull up
at that white colonial long pig.

[Cook is credited by the British with discovery of the great southern land, Terra Australis, now-called-Australia, in 1770—though as history shows, many had found it before, notably the First Nations people who had been living here for around 60-80,000 years, but also seafarers from China, Portugal, Holland and France had discovered various parts of it before Cook arrived at Gadigal (present-day Sydney). Image from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Captainjamescookportrait.jpg]

1. https://www.captaincooksociety.com/about-us/faq ↩︎