My ex-boyfriend got measurably more attractive
and all I got was a dad bod.
Leonardo DiCaprio has a dad bod,
and for whatever reason this is reassuring to me.
Leonardo DiCaprio finally won an Oscar
for his lead role in The Revenant.
Leonardo DiCaprio was almost killed by a bear
in said movie. But alas, he wasn’t.
I have yet to see The Revenant,
but only because there ain’t nothing special
about a settler who defies death
while NDNs drop like flies around him.
Case in point: the Wikipedia page
for The Revenant is organized into ten sections,
one of which is Plot, the first line of which reads:
“In late 1823, Hugh Glass Guides Andrew Henry’s
trappers through unorganized territory.”
Regardless of what Leonardo DiCaprio had to say at the Oscars
about NDN resistance and climate change,
white people see what they want.
They feast on what’s before them.
Had this been a movie made by NDNs,
that bear would have killed
Leonardo DiCaprio in the first ten minutes
and for the next two hours and twenty-six minutes
(because this movie runs two hours and thirty-six minutes)
there would have been no footage,
just the sounds of NDNs
organizing territory.
Whatever the fuck that means!
The Revenant would have been a very different movie if made by NDNs
“Leonard DiCaprio” from NDN Coping Mechanisms by Billy-Ray Belcourt. Copyright © 2019 Billy-Ray Belcourt. Reprinted by permission of House of Anansi Press, Toronto. www.houseofanansi.com