Riding the Earthboy 40 by James Welch

Author:James Welch
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2010-03-01T00:00:00+00:00

I have plans to burn my drum, move out

and civilize this hair. See my nose? I smash it

straight for you. These teeth? I scrub my teeth

away with stones. I know you help me now I matter.

And I—I come to you, head down, bleeding from my smile,

happy for the snow clean hands of you, my friends.

The Man from Washington

The end came easy for most of us.

Packed away in our crude beginnings

in some far corner of a flat world,

we didn’t expect much more

than firewood and buffalo robes

to keep us warm. The man came down,

a slouching dwarf with rainwater eyes,

and spoke to us. He promised

that life would go on as usual,

that treaties would be signed, and everyone—

man, woman and child—would be inoculated

against a world in which we had no part,

a world of money, promise and disease.

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