familiar at all?

[fragranteflower]

They're Always Telling Me I'm Too Angry
especially when I mention land theft or rape or genocide
They go to therapy to understand themselves
pound anonymous pillows safely with a stranger
in the closed room of proper behavior
There is
no pillow I'm angry with
As far as I'm concerned I'm too tired to be angry enough
Angry that I can't go anyplace

Comments

[captainiveemon]

I know

this is for everyone

[fragranteflower]

sweet, you wrote one. i like it.

btw, this poem WASN'T written by me, i WISH i could only express myself this greatly... some garfield kiddies might remember this from freshman year. when ms.mcbennett gave it to the class to read. i wasn't there, but my good friend thought of me when he read it. because all natives are angry about this shit, it ain't just one crazy native woman like me or her.

i was told that some of the white kids laughed at this poem, laughed that a native woman could be this angry at the system. i was pissed. because it all ain't "that big a deal"

p'shaw.

i wish i could just speak my language.
i wish i could dance more than an eagle dance.
i wish i could know what it's like to say w'sup to grandparents, knowing i only have one, that the other three mysteriously died.. recalling somethign along the lines of my grandpa died drunk in the train tracks..
i wish i had a nice house
i wish it all wasn't so hard.

oh well. it's making me stronger and more inciteful to the rest of the shit going down.

[crazzycat]

Well. I read it and still can't understand how you can fit so much hate into one head, not to mention racial grouping. But whatever. I'm just the white person who ruined "your" life.

[fukudoll]

Wow, how insightful. I feel really bad for you now.