9 January 2008 | Vol. 7, No. 4

Mountain Lion Boy Testifies Before the House Subcommittee on the Atrocities of War

by HENRY OSO QUINTERO

Father Mother

This is absolute.

We have come as the New Buffalo soldiers

Only I am dressed in the Fawn of your love

Chirping the Deer in to win our own color in our own land

Father Mother

It is just as we moved out of the mountains

Into the Superstitions of the lights rising from below the valley

The sky red mud water and the moon the alligator's eye

The fire of the sun burns the handle of the saw so hot

Just like the summer burn and shake of the PS2 joystick

Burning on the bright burn of the talking box booming out

My rage with

No A/C

Father Mother

The animals of this land are beautiful a