Wednesday, January 17, 2007

THE REINCARNATION OF GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER

A black ship sneaks out of the seething mists
Booming shrieks of orca slaying gray whales
A new steed and battle song for pogroms
For survivors of small pox and liquor
His bullets are words of racial hatred
His new black plague is disinformation
A drop of truth in a gallon of lies
George staged his crusade on the front pages
In pompous headlines and action photos
Of blackships and jet skis and zodiacs
Swarming a lone hand-carved whaling canoe
"Little Johnny" missed the final battle
He committed a high seas felony
His pony trampled a trusting gray whale
George lost his hair again at Neah Bay
When the Makah harpooned their first gray whale
And took us to the new millenium
As real Indians like our ancestors