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Juan Manuel Pérez<br />
Lament For Wounded Knee I<br />
December 29, 1890<br />
Red, wounded hearts bled on sacred land<br />
Where was the white man’s mercy?<br />
Where was their god, so recently celebrated?<br />
Caucasians bearing great gifts of revenge<br />
Serving last dinners, crimson cold in falling snow<br />
Where was that holiday spirit, if not of a ghastly past?<br />
Among the slaughtered, mostly the old, women, and children<br />
No armed, red warriors to call it a fair fight<br />
Paying gravely for that famous, dead, civil war leader<br />
Where was compassion for the red man’s last stand?<br />
Who would long remember this homicidal day?<br />
Were it not for those so wrongly murdered<br />
Bury the last of the pale-skin human hearts as well<br />
Deep, darkly, among those left at Wounded Knee<br />
144 WINDWARD REVIEW | Vol. 18
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