Jonny Appleseed

by Joshua Whitehead

I played straight on the rez in order to be NDN and here I played white in order to be queer.

Sometimes I don’t like how life goes on. And sometimes I don’t think it should.

“And he tells me, Karen, ain’t nothing no hospitals gonna do, fuck, I go there with strep throat and they ask me, ‘You drunk, boy?’

When you really let yourself feel, well, you end up scaring yourself from all the hurt and pain.

broken. We put our must vulnerable in the centre and for once I do just that: 2S folx and Indigenous women are centred here. I hold our relations accountable to us for once.