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Why is the Maple Leaf Ruby
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All Points Are Divine Why is the Maple Leaf rubyhued?
crimson from the blood of
Manitoba pigs?
red from Newfoundland
baby seals clubbed?
scarlet-scarred from Calgary Stampede
calves and horses
gored.. and broken-necked
incarnadine from the flesh of
Saskatchewan Mad Elk and Mad Deer
.. and of bears sacrificed to
trophy mad hunters
bloody from the stumps of the
centuries of animals who have
chewed off their paws to get out
of traps?
(the blood of the centenarian
trees
in British Columbia felled
.. is green)
no.. the red Maple Leaf
is a symbol
for Newfoundland apples
and Saskatchewan
cherries Toronto strawberries
and Vancouver cranberries
the crimson blood
of freed slaves who came
to a country which has never
legalized chaining of
human beings
the scarlet blood
of lives saved
as Canada refused
to violate Iraq
and Afghanistan
..
