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Ode to Seattle
(when there were more cranes on the Seattle landscape then anywhere in the world, for years)
I don't recognize where I am when I am, walking down the street
my memory map from childhood is loosing it's landmarks
The city is gaining pregnancy stretch-marks and birthmarks and bio-domes and traffic messes
"Like it use to be"?
Who has a right to say that?
the New Yorker who has lived here 20 years?
The Californian who has been here 30?
my great grandfather rolled logs in Eliot bay, does that give me the right to say that?
"I am a Seattle native", I use to say, but we living on stolen lands, stamping our mark on the Duwamish tribal territory who was here since the last ice age, about 10,000 years. We owe it to them to not claim native status. We owe it to them to build and live sustainably, much like the Inigenous before us, if we want to inhabit for another 10,000 years,.
Oh cranes in contrast with the clouds, Im glad you can't change the clouds
(when there were more cranes on the Seattle landscape then anywhere in the world, for years)
I don't recognize where I am when I am, walking down the street
my memory map from childhood is loosing it's landmarks
The city is gaining pregnancy stretch-marks and birthmarks and bio-domes and traffic messes
"Like it use to be"?
Who has a right to say that?
the New Yorker who has lived here 20 years?
The Californian who has been here 30?
my great grandfather rolled logs in Eliot bay, does that give me the right to say that?
"I am a Seattle native", I use to say, but we living on stolen lands, stamping our mark on the Duwamish tribal territory who was here since the last ice age, about 10,000 years. We owe it to them to not claim native status. We owe it to them to build and live sustainably, much like the Inigenous before us, if we want to inhabit for another 10,000 years,.
Oh cranes in contrast with the clouds, Im glad you can't change the clouds