Native America
written by: Robin McNamara
I have obligation to let you speak
the Mojave language.
Lie down heart with no history-
history begin with Washington –
Sitting Bull – no hero –
hero begin with Davy Crockett.
We used your language to defeat Hitler
even though it was dead to us –
zombie drinkers in the reservations
with white man thirst.
I sorry – no motherland for you.
Belong to white face –
milk bottles & newspapers in the dustbowl.
You once have country –
the Great Plains ran with wild borders.
Shame on those who took from your ancestors
who hollered;
“whoo hoo!, whoo hoo!”
now tame like your great-grandpa’s war whoops
in the desert of coyotes.
New America – do not
ask me to be patriotic to the tail
that wags the dog –
The + Anointed + States + of + America.
Bubblegum nation & Coca Cola.
No room for warrior.
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