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This is another piece
where I examine--

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there's a quote, a
direct quote, again,

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in this piece from the Apology.

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By the way, if you're interested
in looking at the Apology,

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it's online, I think, at--

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shoot, what is it, congress.gov?

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Yeah, you can find the
Apology to Native People, so--

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and you can see some of
this text that I'm quoting.

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"Whereas I query my
uneasiness with the statement,

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quote, 'Native peoples are
endowed by their creator

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with certain unalienable rights.

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And among those are life,
liberty, and the pursuit

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of happiness', end quote.

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I shift in my seat,
a needle in my back.

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Though 'unalienable', they're
rights I cannot legally claim

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if placed within a
whereas statement,

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meaning whatever comes after
the word 'whereas' and before

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the semicolon in a Congressional
document falls short of legal

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grounds, is never cause
to sue the government,

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the government's courts say.

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Whereas I remember that
abstractions such as life,

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liberty, and happiness
rarely serve a poem,

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so I have learned it best not
to engage those terms anyway.

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Yet I smash head-on into this
specific differentiation,

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the creator versus
their creator.

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Whereas this alters
my concern entirely.

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How do I language a collision
arrived at through separation?

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When in doubt, I'm
told, write what I know.

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So I peel my eye to the
moment, my love of it.

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I wake from a dream
about running I interpret

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as the desire to get there.

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Pulling back my bedsheets,
I teeter down the hall

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to the face of a new clock
in the bathroom mirror.

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I say, you're old enough"--

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excuse me-- "you're
old enough now

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to look at yourself full-on.

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Whereas I set aside
interrogation to see.

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I cannot syntax or
poem the creator,

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nor differentiate one
creator from another creator,

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much less, that is, mine from
theirs, theirs from ours,

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or why a creator split.

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At the mirror, who can?"

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