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At the National Museum of the American Indian, 68 percent of the collection is from the I am doing my best to not
Jan 26,2021
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At the National Museum of the American Indian,
68 percent of the collection is from the
I am doing my best to not become a museum
of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out.
I am begging: Let me be lonely but not invisible.
In an American city of one hundred people,
I am Native American—less than one, less than
whole—I am less than myself. Only a fraction
of a body, let’s say I am only a hand—
and when I slip it beneath the shirt of my lover,
I disappear completely.
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