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Defenders of our coast—

Indigenous elders

Environmentalists

(radical or otherwise)

Grannies (raging

or otherwise)—

let’s surround government

until it hears the people

at its heart—

let’s show a world

we’re a world too—

rivers and mountains

talking down to the sea

I think we know

what to say yes

and say no to—

our land in the hands

of the future

whose grandchildren

will listen to it

in a clean and curling shell

all of us hoping

no Kalamazoos near

our kaleidoscope coasts

and the precious that washes

clear waters and smooth sands