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JACQUELINE TURNER
a canadian poem
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- a canadian poem would
- mention hockey, even
- if the players are on
- strike
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- a canadian poem would
- be excesssively polite,
- even obsequious
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- a canadian poem would
- wonder why you were
- reading it, when there
- are so many other
- poems to read
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- a canadian poem would
- be bilingual, mais ma
- français, c’est
- mauvaise
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- a canadian poem would
- be emblazoned on a
- backpack, as if to say
- this is not an american
- poem
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- a canadian poem would
- try to keep the peace
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- a canadian poem would
- take a long time to
- apologize for Indian
- residential schools,
- Japanese internment
- camps, Chinese head
- tax
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- a canadian poem would
- be quiet
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- a canadian poem would
- incessantly discuss
- Quebec sovereignty:
- oui ou non
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- a canadian poem would
- say no to joining the
- war in Iraq
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- a canadian poem would
- be multicultural
- speaking at least 73
- different languages
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- a canadian poem might
- not notice the loss of
- some 50 aboriginal
- languages because the
- only native speakers
- are dying
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- a canadian poem might
- mention elementary
- school classes all taught
- in shuswap
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- a canadian poem could
- marry another canadian
- poem even if that
- poem was the same
- gender
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- this is a canadian poem
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- a canadian poem would
- be long like the
- transcanada highway
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- a canadian poem would
- be flat like the prairies
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- a canadian poem would
- be huge like the
- rockies
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- this is not a canadian
- poem
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- a canadian poem would
- challenge stereotypes
- by saying canadian
- poems don’t always
- wear toques
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- a canadian poem would
- fit in your pocket
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- a canadian poem is
- impossible
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- a canadian poem would
- wonder if people were
- making fun of it behind
- its back
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- you might think a
- canadian poem would
- end each line with, eh?
- like that’s such a
- canadian poem, eh?
- but you’d be so wrong
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- the last line of a
- canadian poem would
- always be thank you,
- thank you for noticing
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