In the Big Cypress, Brenda looked like
Meryl Streep and I looked like Chris Cooper
in Adaptation. The Park Service took away
the mom-and-pop motel in Ochopee, the Golden Lion,
and made it their headquarters. Eminent domain.
I don’t see it as being that much different than
what we did to the Indians. It don’t seem that crazy
to me. It’s what I expect. From the white man.
The haole. A term I learned in
It means white devil, or goddamned white man.
I called myself Albino Grizzly. I saw a bee-tree
from the boardwalk at Fackahatchee Strand.
Berserker is from wearer of the bear shirt,
invincible in battle. Recklessly valorous.
The Seminole term is hadjo. You have to earn it.
That motherfucker crazy. Little Richard.