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Colony

by <{Baba^Yaga}>

Member since 2002 · Posted 27 Sep 2002 · Edited 10 Aug 2003 · 9 comments

Aping rock to rock Crossing the Atlantic Lets kill buffalos A scorpion feast Before french toast & coffee Live cowboy stupid Powdering red skins & whiskey whore beef-jerky Winchester's Ghost-Dance Dredging their Black Hills Mount your pick of injun squaws Some home of the brave

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[9] INTRANSIT 27-Sep-02/5:57 PM Reply
OUCH! But you are right.9
[4] Frass 27-Sep-02/6:51 PM Reply
Methinks it putrid; my wife's Ojibwa and I'm part Cherokee. But, something shimmers through.
[n/a] <{Baba^Yaga}> › Frass 20-Oct-02/12:41 PM Reply
whitey must be punished, but the sandniggers aren't gonna be the ones to do it...it'll be the yellow race.
[n/a] <{Baba^Yaga}> › Frass 13-Nov-02/1:06 PM Reply
yeah..what shimmer's through unfortunately is "truth" with an interesting twist called 'metaphor reversals' by accepting the dark you find the light...the white mans time will come..just watch africa go. whitey will be growing and pulling cotton and floating face first through thee rapids of his own undoings in no tima at all in fact it's already happening..i meant no offense..towards you and your wife, and happen to bed quite knowledgable when it comes to the total history of migrating nomadic tribes from all ages and continents...hence. my background in anthropology and history.
[n/a] <{Baba^Yaga}> › Frass 29-Nov-02/1:09 AM Reply
ojibwa ka-nobja. der.
[10] god'swife 13-Nov-02/1:11 PM Reply
Squaw is mis-spelled and so is buffalo. You're a great writer, poetry, comments, confessions. I mean it.
[n/a] <{Baba^Yaga}> › god'swife 13-Nov-02/6:13 PM Reply
as long as i can sound it all out. i don't lose to much sleep over it. spelling that is. except for the squaw i mean..that one has got me a little peived.
[8] http://mulberryfairy 11-Aug-03/7:52 AM Reply
I think the dictionary preferred plural of buffalo is buffalo, but acknowledge your poetic right to say buffalos (even though buffaloes is the second place plural form) in order to point out the cowboys' ignorance.
[n/a] horus8 › http://mulberryfairy 11-Aug-03/11:40 AM Reply
It is. And cowboys hardly need anything to assist their right to stupidity.