Of Indifference and Savages by Nadine Sellers

    see the second sons
    heirs of nothing
    dreamers of all
    brothers of escape
    abuse and abandon
    intoxicated by adventure
    hungry for liberty
    they came onto the path of travail
    full of self
    one propelled by repulsion
    in a forsaken mother city
    filled with disgust and competition
    he came to divest himself of pretense
    to rid his gut of religion

    the other with wife and child
    rode horse and wave
    for work well paid
    solid gold and ignorance

    the dreamer marches on
    with savage determination
    to cement the virgin prairies
    with insult and flowing blood

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