Shagbark carpet
sweetens the teepee floor
Goldplated arrows hang
above buffalo-bone mantle
Lipton's instant venison soup
cooks over open fire
Broken peacepipe in attic
collects dust the way
pale face gathers real estate
Fax machine in corner
yelps like pack of wolves
in conflict with bulldozer
Indians now dance with lawyers
to reclaim what was stolen
by unfair laws of conquerors
Wampum has grown greener,
still speaks the ancient tongue
Legal eagles answer
with precise swipe of talons
Chief Snake Eyes
arrives at courthouse in
fourty thousand dollar Cherokee
His smile - Calvin Klein white,
flashes like a deer in the woods
that has caught the scent of smoke
