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BUFFALO by Alice Rose Crow At Fred Meyer, grain-fed buffalo meat is on sale. No tongue tho to tell me what else they would've eaten.
I think of Rick and his work after the Jails and before his face is plastered on ads that mimic Why did you go to college? Me? To laugh at the business of grain-fed buffalo for sale in urban Alaska to entice them to eat what they once let rot away on slaughter fields. Buffalo bones fertilize the earth that grows the grain that feeds the buffalo killed and portioned out for sale in a supermarket that doesn't carry moose or caribou or seal or walrus or whale Yet What's between now and sale signs for meadow-fed moose? tundra-fed caribou? fresh-caught seal? rich-in-fat walrus? farmed whale?
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Text © 2000 by Alice Rose Crow
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Original Graphic, "Before Chalk," © 2000 by Jim Davis- Rosenthal