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\nFinger on the Trigger<\/strong><\/p>\n

He’s got that T & R look,
\nstreet stuff to the core.
\nAn edgy, hard, spring,
\na faster remedy
\nthan your bouncercizer.
\nEven the air respects this
\nbackstreet royalty, keeps his
\nCrazy Horse hair and
\ntiny pore, proud brown
\nface fresh during
\nnight rounds. <\/p>\n

His number you got,
\nburning a hole,
\nsmouldering in your smug
\nabove-it-all wallet
\nof pretensions. Twitchy fingers
\nwon’t dig it out though. He could
\ncost some coin and
\nlike you, he prefers
\nto shag the familiar. <\/p>\n

He’s a high risk girlfriend.
\nAnd as if you don’t know
\nwhat risk, here’s a list.
\nTo re-offend,
\nto give you trich, syph,
\nhep, the virus.
\nTo smack you around,
\nto break your heart,
\nto give you an intense ride
\nback to your reckless self who
\ncan fall in love and laugh at
\ndeath. <\/p>\n

Irresistible.
\nJust right for someone
\nwhose own whistling
\nin her nose
\nscares her at night. <\/p>\n

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SU: This image of the knife got the most reaction. Whenever people spoke openly about the website to Ahasiw and I, they would bring up ‘the guy with the knife’. Used in this poem (which I think was by Elvina Piapot) and also as the entry image for the website, it had a central role to the Spider Language project.
\nHere’s what we heard: violent; aggressive; unfavourable depiction of aboriginals\/youth\/aboriginal youth; dangerous; not in spirit of the site; why did we use that and not a spider?;<\/em> etc. etc.
\nHere’s what we saw: strength<\/strong>.
\n(and brats both, I admit we thought it was hot, too).<\/h4>\n

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