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the smell of go(l)d
Psalms 2:8:
"Ask of me, and I shall give thee, the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession."
they are brown
with no clothes
the water is blue
they give us
green parrots
with fifty men,
god and guns
brown is red
in the blue water
one parrot survives
caged
repeating catechisms
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we are bulls
with iron horns
branded by the cross
hungry for the smell
of gold
they are brown
in feathers and robes
they give us
jaguars and hummingbirds
condors and bats
bees and alligator teeth
butterflies and severed heads
the gold sun
and the crystal moon
drink volcano blood
and pray for us to go
we stay
to praise them
with crossbows
mounted swords
and silver mines
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the fathers are broken
to bend the mountains
to reward
the mothers are bent
to break the dirt to bud
the milk dries until
babies cry and
are held under water
to save them
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we are lions
with white sail wings
fire sticks and pikes
hungry for the smell
of gold
they are brown
and watch us
starve in winter
eat boots and
the frozen flesh
of the dead
or run from christ
to join their fire belly
wigwam feast
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we do not find
the leaves hiding
in the trees
until they fall
to gather corn
we burn them yellow
and bleed them red
with iron and fire
100 moons of burning
and bleeding
a smoldering
prayer
to the god of love
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