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One Christmas season, I was
on an Indian reservation,

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with a relative who tries
to help Indians out.

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And in this little trip,
he was bringing them candy.

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Or other words, he
was getting an order,

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trying to find out
how much candy it

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would take so each
child on the reservation

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would have at least
one bag of candy.

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And I went along with him.

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Some of the details,
obviously, have been changed.

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But at any rate, I was
quite impressed by getting

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this insider's view.

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It's called "Poem For
Leonardo Sanchez".

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"Where had the cock gone?

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The golden one crowing himself
away above your garden.

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A frozen mist dissolving to the
drawn out death of many dawns.

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And but for the old braves
creeping out with wooden rifles

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from the burnt over
hamburger stand,

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and the white slave
girls kept as a burden,

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your village was a
200-year-old crepuscular rose.

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The church dark enough
to swallow them,

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and the yard in front
for playing bolas.

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Especially the lads who
had nailed themselves

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up to display their
sinews for the girls.

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You came down the steps,
still emboldened by the night

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before, and tucking
your tail in.

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It would take a new lift,
a new aluminum chair,

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and 1,000 pounds of candy.

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Drove us around to
those who had need.

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But the pregnant women
never stumbled from our arms

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toward the fury of a demon.

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The church neither gasped
flame nor sucked them in.

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He eyed the corn
on their breasts,

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but remained a stone on my ribs.

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Leonardo, the steps of
your house are rotting in.

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And though we can lift your son,
perhaps assuage these children.

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They swing so far on
our intricate devices

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that soon the blood
your fathers tasted

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as pride and musk of the wolf
will be phlegm in your throat.

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The streets where
the girls roll,

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full of prayers and
drunken, where we fornicate

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will no longer be grim".

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