There are some poems between, and then
the final one in each section is "the message of crazy horse."
Crazy Horse believes that if-- he believed
he was going to be killed, be betrayed,
and he asked his young men that if he was betrayed,
that they should paint his body red
and plunge it in freshwater, and he would return,
he would be restored.
But in their grief, the young men forgot.
He also said that if they forgot,
he would wait until the world was in a perilous time,
and then he would return.
I'm expecting him at any moment to come dancing
through the door.
"the message of crazy horse."
"I would sit in the center of the world,
the Black Hills hooped around me,
and dream of my dancing horse.
My wife was Black Shawl, who gave me the daughter I called,
'They Are Afraid of Her.'
I was afraid of nothing, except Black Buffalo Woman.
My love for her, I wore instead of feathers.
I did not dance, I dreamed.
I am dreaming now across the worlds.
My medicine is strong, my medicine
is strong in the Black basket of these fingers.
I come again through this Black Buffalo Woman.
Hear me, the hoop of the world is breaking.
Fire burns in the four directions.
The dreamers are running away from the hills.
I have seen it.
I am Crazy Horse."