torn labels

lighthouses taught native
communities that we are big houses
along wilderness reservations

walking south
with th devil’s club
down ropes and over starbucks –
ded wood on th ground
curses th drift

          clean drinking water is right
          is clean drinking water a right
          is drinking water clean

          four hundred years on foot
          is apparently not
          progress

what now – it takes courage
on our part
to even glance 

away we go run
away   

what we call th courage
to loaf
where there need not be courage
at all
where th drinking water is so quiet

cut and scrape along th stainless
of our souls
            th american standard
we pour buckets of water over our head
and listen to th drop by drop

# posted by hardyf : 10:33