Kat Gale’s Reviews > I Place You into the Fire > Status Update

Our lungs are made up of 83 percent liquid inspiration.
Our hearts beat with 73 percent of earth’s perspiration.
And our blood is 92 percent in a dire situation.
So it is with 100 percent earnest invitation that I ask for a future
for the next seven generations.

The Highway of Tears? Girl, that was so last year.
No need to fear that you’ll be snatched or attacked,
because it’s a fact.
We are reconciled.

Now, may I be so bold as to make a suggestion?
Instead of a budget and a timeline for reconciliation,
how about an accurate portrayal of history in our
nation’s education?
Bring back the National Aboriginal Health Organization?
Institute classes for language reclamation?

I come from one of those families
where we didn’t have choices,
but were consistently told the world was our oyster.