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A review by katharina90
Nature Poem by Tommy Pico
emotional
funny
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
Brilliant, powerful, and laugh out loud hilarious. The best poetry I've come across in a while.
"Look, I’m sure you really do just want to wear those dream catcher earrings. They’re beautiful. I’m sure you don’t mean any harm, I’m sure you don’t really think abt us at all. I’m sure you don’t understand the concept of off-limits. But what if by not wearing a headdress in yr music video or changing yr damn mascot and perhaps adding .05% of personal annoyance to yr life for the twenty minutes it lasts, the 103 young ppl who tried to kill themselves on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation over the past four months wanted to live 50% more"
"Once on campus I see a York Peppermint Pattie wrapper on the ground, pick it up and throw it away.
Yr such a good Indian says some dick walking to class. So,
I no longer pick up trash."
"I am missing many cousins, have you seen them?"
'I can't write a nature poem bc English is some Stockholm shit, makes me complicit in my tribe's erasure--why shd I give a fuck abt "poetry"?"
"Look, I’m sure you really do just want to wear those dream catcher earrings. They’re beautiful. I’m sure you don’t mean any harm, I’m sure you don’t really think abt us at all. I’m sure you don’t understand the concept of off-limits. But what if by not wearing a headdress in yr music video or changing yr damn mascot and perhaps adding .05% of personal annoyance to yr life for the twenty minutes it lasts, the 103 young ppl who tried to kill themselves on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation over the past four months wanted to live 50% more"
"Once on campus I see a York Peppermint Pattie wrapper on the ground, pick it up and throw it away.
Yr such a good Indian says some dick walking to class. So,
I no longer pick up trash."
"I am missing many cousins, have you seen them?"
'I can't write a nature poem bc English is some Stockholm shit, makes me complicit in my tribe's erasure--why shd I give a fuck abt "poetry"?"
Content Warnings
Moderate: Suicide, Genocide, Cultural appropriation, and Colonisation
Minor: Sexual content