True North Strong and FREE
Frailty, thy name is that WORD.
Freedom will never be found -
nailed by gold plated spikes.
Buried, our nation-coffin
and corpses, wrapped in normativity,
lay 6 ft under
our home and native land.
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This is for Professor Daniel Coleman, revered Canadian Literature prof at McMaster University. Against all odds, he gave me a respect for our nation’s literature – and a more interesting view of what we can create – what our potential is in this land of variable futures.
