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Mercedes Eng
500 dollars
500 trees
500 lakes
500 guns
500 blankets
500 bars of soap
500 textbooks
500 buffalo
500 women
I can’t count how many children
Mercedes Eng teaches and writes in Vancouver, unceded Coast Salish Territories. She is the author of Mercenary English and Prison Industrial Complex Explodes. This poem was written in 2011, on the occasion of another colonial birthday celebration, the City of Vancouver's 125th year of occupation.
This originally appeared on July 1, 2017