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Life on the Reservation
Contributed by
Jim_Cundiff
on
Friday, 26th July 2002 @ 03:57:16 PM in AEST
Topic:
Grief
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Babies crying,
hungry because theres no food,
again today.
The older children feel their huger,
No food on the dinner table tonight,
Same as yesterday; no hope for tomorrow.
Run down, drafty clapboard houses
Incapable of keeping out the Winters cold.
Fathers, unable to provide adequate
shelter or food,
sink deeper into depression,
turning to alcohol,
the only thing readily available,
another government-backed means
of genocide.
Passed out drunk in the Winter snow,
body not found until the Spring,
bullet holes in the back of the head.
Coroners report states exposure
as the cause of death.
As another season passes
on the reservation.
Copyright ©
Jim_Cundiff
... [
2002-07-26 15:57:16]
(Date/Time posted on
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Re: Life on the Reservation
(User Rating: 1 )
by Jackee_line on
Thursday, 21st November 2002 @ 08:32:10 PM AEST
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a chilling poem but yet so true
an excellent write |
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