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"Private Chant of
a Young Apache."

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I don't know if this poem
is successful or not.

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I was trying to
imagine what it would

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be like to be a young
Apache living around here.

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And this is what came out.

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"Private Chant of
the Young Apache."

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At night the mountain
comes closer,

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though the time for
visions is gone.

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It speaks in the old language
that I cannot remember.

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What I hear is wind,
night birds in the cactus.

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Quick breathing from
puffed throats of lizards.

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The little holy gravel rattling.

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My enemy the sun
warms the air base,

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shows missile silos, glints
off cars on Highway 10

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like spear points.

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My people are dead in the day.

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A white girl saw me two times.

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I thought she was a God.

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But her big eyes were
hungry, so I hid.

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I will keep my soul.

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All the ghost dances failed,
and this is white man's desert.

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But at night, I am alive.

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Coyote is my brother.

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I am waiting for the
mountain to tell me my name.

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