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Barbie Plenty Horses
by Maggie Jaffe
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jumped the Rez.
It was either that or white man's
school where she learn sew
learn cook learn clean
learn English-not think, laugh,
dream.
An incorrigible Indian
giver swapped Barbie's horses
for land theft
fire water
wormy beef & moldy flour
diabetes & smallpox-
infested blankets.
Barbie Plenty Horses would like
a career change,
instead she got a name change:
Barbie No Horses
Barbie No
Barbie.
Copyright © 1999
Maggie Jaffe
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Maggie Jaffe's publications include How The West Was One, Continuous
Performance, 7th Circle and 1492: What Is It Like To Be Discovered?,
a collaboration with the artist Deborah Small. Maggie is the recipient of a 1997 California Arts Council
grant and is Poetry Editor of Cedar
Hill Review and Editorial Assistant
of Rattle. She is presently working on The Prisons. |
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