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Poetry: True North, Strong and FREE

January 1, 2008

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.