the narrative
is simple:
you’ve got natives
and their descendants
immigrants by choice
and their descendants
involuntary immigrants
and their descendants
crossbloods of all the above
and that’s it.
plenty of nuances,
tragedies, subplots,
myths, legends,
stories, tall tales,
obfuscations, and
damn lies disguised
as statistics roil
the air here,
but the narrative itself
sits under all of them
like antiphony
in the choir
tugging the earlobes
turning the head back and forth
never quite clear
but always present
cutting a channel
through the dirt
that holds us all
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