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Rita Joe
« Thread Started on Oct 9, 2008, 1:22am »

Rita Joe

I lost my talk

I lost my talk
The talk you took away
When I was a little girl
At Shubenacadie school

You snatched it away:
I speak like you
I think like you
I create like you
The scrambled ballad, about my word.

Two ways I talk
Both ways I say,
Your way is more powerful

So gently I offer my hand and ask,
Let me find my talk
So I can teach you about me.

For more information on Rita Joe, including biography, poems, and works published:

youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4bqcBv1id4

http://tinyurl.com/3qf86b

http://www.danielnpaul.com/RitaJoe-RenownedMi'kmaqPoet.html

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