'Preparation for Departure,
Preparation for Departure, Emmanuela Copal de León, 2000.

 

 

NO MORE GENOCIDAL ACTS
by Alice Rose Crow

 

We talk Sanctions for others who commit Genocidal Acts against us

We include World Court/UN orators for that difficult work

The rest of us ought offer
Good thoughts and support...

And spend Energy in our Homeland

Choosing life

Choosing no more self-inflicted Genocidal Acts

No more shots taken for friends to keep them from killing themselves

No more violent, vicious, bloody stabbings

 

No more spouting off about Genocide

Then tipping the bottle to our mouths

No more rapes

Murder

Maiming

Sodomy

No more kidnapping

No more terrorizing
kids or old people

No more hitting

Ravaged homes

Long-term foster care

No more binge and blackout drinking

Alcohol poisoning

Suffocating in what we couldnt keep down

No more Genocidal Acts to
Threaten our survival
As Distinct Peoples

 

Don't choose to be
Distinctly Genocidal

 

Don't choose to let others
spoon-feed us

 

Watch us
Spout off

And die

 

 

 


 

Text © 2000 by Alice Rose Crow

Forward to Alice Crow's Rural Tragedy

Original Graphic, "Preparation for Departure," © 2000 by Emmanuela Copal de León

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