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Jul 2016
I thought that
Chief Dan George
was born in
Chad Valley

something torn from a cold childhood memory

it was a game if hide and seek was ever such
a sorely needed and much wanted finding of oneself and where one's ego would know no boundary.


In the Chad Valley forge when the sweat ran
where a man can if he's of a mind look and find
Dan George

steel rifles off rollers making dollars,
reservations from some
palaces for others.


I must go back to Chad Valley down some dark memory in a dead end alley

If Chief Dan can so can I
John Edward Smallshaw
Written by
John Edward Smallshaw  69/Here and now
(69/Here and now)   
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