Painting by Sharon Evans
Reservation Love Song
I can meet you
in Springdale buy you beer
& take you home
in my one-eyed Ford
I can pay your rent
on HUD house get you free
food from the BIA
get your teeth fixed at IHS
I can buy you alcohol
& not drink it all
while you're away I won't fuck
any of your cousins
if I don't get too drunk
I can bring old blankets
to sleep with in winter
they smell like grandmother
hands digging up roots
they have powerful magic
we can sleep good
we can sleep warm
Sherman Alexie........from The Business of Fancydancing
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