Jim Talks About Diversity

Ask us about heroes
and you may see us smile
a bit differently than you do.

Your drinks are just drinks.
Your bets are just bets, at least
if they make us happy.

When we smoke now
it’s no more a ritual
than when you do.

A sweat lodge
is still our place. You come in
as naked tourists.

Long hair and leather
is lovely on some people,
childish on others.

Your spirit animals
live in a zoo, and ours
watch them from outside the bars.

There’s a gap
between a dream
and a dreamcatcher.

Owning a dreamcatcher
does not mean
you have a dream.