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The axis of
dispossession, figure 2--

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I had to learn some
math to make these.

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So this is an aggregate demand.

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Dispossession of body--
on the auction block,

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the state empties the
woman of personhood

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through the language of law, and
in doing so, invents property.

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The state imagines ownership.

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Who may own these endless
fertile fields and ever

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more bodies to yield its yield?

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Ever more bodies,
ever more tender crop.

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Coerce.

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Extract.

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Export.

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Tobacco, cotton, sugar was
the need, was the case,

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was the perils,
was the want, was

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the particular circumstance,
was the seas, was the cost,

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was the could, was the would,
was the policy, was the loss,

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was the vessel.

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Cargo ship at sea, the
first for-profit prison.

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The plantation, another.

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Law is the narrative power to
reduce a mother to chattel,

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to animal her many labors,
to call her daughter stock

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and capital, to be sold
under colonial domination.

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The art of the deal--

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a rags to riches.

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A people, its plunder.

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Dispossession of body.

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In the new world,
the colonial project

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is to disappear the native
from time and space,

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estrange her from memory.

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Land of no one, the continent
is emptied by language,

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remapped by borders
rather than relations.

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Half-settler, half-native, I
face a different emptiness.

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Alone, stranded
in time and space,

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I have no beginning or
end in a land evacuated

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of memory, relation, kin.

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If not lost to violence,
virus, or virgin conquest,

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we fall to the
forgetting, self-erase,

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disappear into whiteness.

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Tribe obliterated,
women violated,

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children assimilated,
we disappear ourselves

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from ourselves.

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You no-tribe,
half-blood mestiza,

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you cannot reclaim
your historical bodies.

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You remember no one.

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No one remembers you.

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No tribe claims you because
it no longer exists.

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And as it is in the land,
the Indian is vanished in me.