Saturday, May 24, 2014

family services

in the tangled wire fences
and broken bottle shrapnel
of the residential schools, the 60's scoops
where siblings were spun centrifugally
and then flung from Wales
to Australia

authentic Aboriginal children are now
rentable for a governmental fee
foster parents can bill monthly
for their white milk of lovingkindness

little brown babies
surrounded by benevolent
occupiers spooning canned mush
speaking only English please

thousands of Indigenous parents
turning down
the blankets on empty beds
every night:




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