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Living Life as a Living Target

from Crazy Horse Never Died by Roxy Gordon

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lyrics

The idea came from prairie dogs.
Prairie dog towns used to stretch
all over West Texas. Prairie dogs
are funny little animals that stand
on the dirt mounds by their burrows
and bark like the devil when
something threatens.

Prairie dogs have no real defense but to
head underground
(just like human beings)
and even then, they are likely to
be followed, dug out and
eaten (just like human beings).

Prairie dogs seem
born mainly to furnish nourishment.

Living life as a living target,
living life waiting for
the ferret
living life waiting for
the fox
living life waiting for
the coyote
living life waiting for
the hawk
living life waiting for
the white man--

running always, offering
a moving target,
fighting like the devil
to stay alive,
but keeping others alive
by dying.

Prairie dogs are an endangered
species now, except up on the
high northern plains and
the ranchers up there would
like to see them that way.
But we expect they'll survive--
in name and in fact. Because
the world still needs those who
die
for the survival
of the races.

And then on the other hand,
there are those moving targets
that move so fast
they just never get caught.

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from Crazy Horse Never Died, released May 12, 2023

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Roxy Gordon Dallas, Texas

Roxy Gordon (First Coyote Boy, or Tu Gah Juk Juk Ka Na Hok Sheena) (1945–2000) was a Choctaw, Assiniboine, and Texan poet, journalist, artist, activist, and musician.

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