Poor Christopher Columbus isn't popular no more.
His antics on the ocean and with islands we abhor.
When I was but a younker we were taught in our grade school
that Christopher Columbus had been chosen as God's tool
to widen man's horizons and spread blessings far and wide;
we never heard a thing about the natives that all died.
But still we have his holiday -- no mail, or banking done.
Italians have disowned him, and he's treated like a Hun.
In time I guess they'll pull down all the statues with his name;
How fleeting, Ocean Admiral, the fripperies of fame!
@gbrockell
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