mcPemmican TM1

first you get the grease from canola buffalo

then you find mystery meat

you must package this in

bright colours             just like beads

 

let the poor intake their money take their health

sound familiar

chase fast food off the cliff

speed beef

deer on a bun

bury in the ground

 

special this day

mcPemmican™

cash those icons in

 

how about a

mcTreaty

 

 

would you like some lies with that?

 

 

they line up for blocks   dying to clog mind arteries everyone has

at least one fortieth indian↓   two parts water   the rest unknown

 

they line to see the real             ↑­to buy the grey owl burger

to touch the other                                     money did fall

from the sky

 

we had one table reserved by the window we write

the city treaty

country words                                             me and this clown

 

 

pencils sharp     look busy     act important

look out the window

 

so you have to explain who is this clown

but I won’t

 

 

I can knot

will not will not

just like hem

ing way

instead

we found

some

 

 

1 treaty manuscript

Serving up a McTreaty with a side of lies

Bibliographical info

© 2002 Marvin Francis reprinted by permission from City Treaty, Turnstone Press (Winnipeg, MB).

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