Hear me
read
the poem as
an MP3 file.
Watch me
read
the poem as
a YouTube video.
Audio and Video Music:
First Contact.
By Jahzzar.
Performed by Jahzzar
at the
Free Music Archive
under an Attribution-
ShareAlike
license.
Poems for
Indigenous
Peoples' Day
Indians are, of course, not
Indians.
Nor were they ever Indians.
Denying their identities,
Inventing labels as we please,
Allows, of course, their genocide.
No word is ever innocent.
So names enable fratricide.
Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.
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