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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;">attempts at ugliness not only stifle but hold hostage</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;">questions determined to find their way to the surface<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;"> ... who owns this land? ...<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;">the answers left on clotheslines<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;">until some are dislodged by inequality<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;">renters remain unwelcome<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;">pushed from one home to the next<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;">they bring their potted plants<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;">find a home for it on the new patio<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;">until they can't afford a patio<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;">and still no honest answer<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;">to who owns this land<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;">I know it must be hard to feel <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;">sorry for renters like me<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;">who could once afford balconies<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;">when this was once a forest<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;">before my Métis ancestor brought HBC blankets <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;">and maybe even stole a canoe<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;">I know who owns this land and it is not me<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;"> yet here I am with nowhere to go<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;"> forever trapped in rentals <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;">and a little too familiar with basement suites<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;">where no sharing of the yard shall take place<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;">and when their mother-in-law needs the suite<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;">we will have to move again! <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; 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It's your turn! Move into the poem. Renovate it. Knock down its walls. Put your spin on it. Make it your own.