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I bet you think this poem is about you

insecure

is why we do

what we do

that is why we are vulnerable

 

does anyone else

notice that there are no natives

around

close enough

on waking up

I bet you think this poem is about you

who knows the plants?

the trees?

who can speak to nature

and make agreements with it?

who signed the organic peace treaties?

organic contracts

who tried torturing ethnicities

into demanding to the death

they are in the state of whiteness?

You do not understand how lost

unsafe

vulnerable

insecure

until you call for help

out of desperation

echoing!

into nativeless derangement

you were wrong

about being able to control nature

and there is nothing you know

that is organic that can renegotiate

the organic peace treaty

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elan-bonde-gregory
Published
Mar 2, 2017
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#love#poetry#beauty#native
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