hey red man, seneca man, what are you doing
going after my woman like that?
you think because we devoured your nation
... you can seduce lyla with your long black braid
and your iroquois tree of peace, thick
with the blood of ghosts and sacrifice?
your name means ‘that which floats’ and
remember when you told the short-haired non-traditional
the short-haired people of the hill that they can’t have their
feet in two different canoes? still, you bought homes
on richmond avenue anyway and say you’re
buying back the land we stole and will rent it to us
at a steep price and didn’t you go all the way to
new zealand to find your wife?
hey, ‘that which floats,’ what will you do when
the peace maker demands a price for your trans-
-gressings? how much is your wife worth to you
anyway, native man?
all the land in seneca?
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