Quotation by James Welch

Harlem, your hotel is overnamed, your children
are raggedy-assed but you go on, survive
the bad food from the two cafes and peddle
your hate for the wild who bring you money.
James Welch (b. 1940), U.S. poet, novelist. Harlem, Montana; Just off the Reservation (l. 28–31). . .

New and Old Voices of Wah'kon-tah; Contemporary Native American Poetry. Robert K. Dodge and Joseph B. McCullough, eds. (1985) International Publishers Company.
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