Ceremony I will tell you something about stories, [he said] They aren’t just entertainment. Don’t be fooled… — Leslie Marmon Silko
Ceremony
I will tell you something about stories,
[he said]
They aren’t just entertainment.
Don’t be fooled.
They are all we have, you see,
all we have to fight off
illness and death.
You don’t have anything
if you don’t have the stories.
Their evil is mighty
but it can’t stand up to our stories.
So they try to destroy the stories
let the stories be confused or forgotten.
They would like that
They would be happy
Because we would be defenseless then.
He rubbed his belly.
I keep it in here
[he said]
Here, put your hand on it
See, It is moving.
There is life here
for the people.
And in the belly of this story
the rituals and the ceremony
are still growing.
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