The Unwanted Truth

Unpalatable often is the truth, I must face the fact
that in this blessed land I will always be regarded
as an outsider, who doesn’t understand their ways.
And now that the people have cast a vote for
the late dictator Salazar, who ruled them into dire
poverty and ignorance for forty years, as the most
famous Portuguese of all time, it’s time to leave,
because I really don’t understand a damned thing