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Folks they were always

here before erasures

no one should have to

face came ashore and

what is a pipeline? What

is an inlet where oil

fills fishing grounds

and rivers wash down

globs of bitumen to spawn

in synthetic seas

but the continuation

of centuries of colonization?

Defenders—elders—others

gathered from all around

see this parliament’s a shell

washed up on a beach with

nothing in it not even sound—

see this oil company it’s

only money burning money

to make money for no ends—

and see this massive crowd

forming—it’s called the people

and the people are coming to

decolonize and to defend