APOLOGY
STEPHEN HARPER ALL BUT ASKED THE POPE FOR AN APOLOGY*
Stephen went to Vatican City recently +acted somewhat
cowardly Even Emily Carr came up against a wall of
indifference to indigenous suffering She became a
landlord & dog breeder for a time
She who painted trees in their wedding dresses In deep
greens forest majesty careening+dancing next to totem
poles chopped haphazardly Hacked by haters colonizers
Now truth+reconciliation is everywhere
With much quibbling about semantics whose genocide was
the real-deal cut the deepest hole A few floors below the Carr
show A.G.O. hang the Warsaw ghetto photos There the man
who saved the Torah! There the bloated children laying on the
streets
There is a certain kind of spotlight required for truth+reconciliation
from which most shy away An x-ray of the human heart circa 1942
showed lesions +rot so advanced that the Pope among others still can
not fathom it
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at the Mohawk Residential School in Brantford Ontario: they were
confined to cells like animals for days on end fed only slimy oatmeal
+they powdered the children’s faces too by any other name a genocide
Summer 2015 *& the People’s Pope did not volunteer one
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