My Lone Ranger
Part of the series “Resistance/Words for the Revolution,” inspired by the Idle No More movement.
my lone ranger
would have a speech impediment
for example
He would say haltingly:
Tonto
Me want know why
Me talk like this
The sidekick would reply:
Kemosabe
big heap damage in first act
to Broca area
brain
Ranger then asks:
Tonto
then why you big heap talk
like that too
The reply:
Kemosabe
bad script writer
Published online October 30 2013.
Trevor Greyeyes, registered with Peguis First Nation, is an Anishnabe writer working as much as he can in the metropolis known as Winnipeg on the far flung prairies of Manitoba.
This piece was published in ‘The Open Issue,’ the Fall 2013 issue of CV2.
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