Cactus Root and the Man of Bitter Fruit.

Ya'at'eeh.

Man from Big Water? 

Him scooch from beyond Big Water, then make hot foot from the gray shores of what the "white ass person" call the water the Atlantic.

Some call this legendary frontiersman Cactus Root.

Him heap full of unsound word.  Word of nothing much in particular, and then we also begrudge him to take part when the drum start, hold knives to his throat so he no culturally appropriate our tribal dances.

We laugh, and him see our teeth when we laugh, and him think we think he dentist, and he look into our maws.  Guffaw, guffaw, our breath-wind soundless laughing exhalations, our teeth, our plainsman toothsome laughing.

He hand us good medical IOU from business office, 12/hr staffer using stick in sand to scribe an invoice: financial burden for medicine that heap bad; him fee to recoup losses in receivable monies from simply staring aristocratically at our mouths.  Like the 400 dollar per hour IBM pony in Frankfurt--Floating Cloud and others put that one at standstill, tossing snowballs into its open, sucking mouth.

Him trade blankets and fire water for our maple syrup; and mind this blanket and firewater, strangely familiar--like when squaw pass toolbox to elder, and elder distribute to other braves, then other brave, to the chief here, and this, a gift.

Recycled?  Repurposed?  Alchemy?  Trash?

Other Man from Big Water put his scrotems in the gopher's mouth.  From the money bag he hide in pants.  He sweat on short grass--he sweat, turn pink then red--red like chief--in mid-afternoon sun, when his secretary catch him off, him make deposit, making stupid game with prairie dogs and gophers.

Other Man, we call him Man of Bitter Fruit. Him and him valet, Humpty-Bumpty-Stumpty and the Singing Woman--big noise, all of them, no sand in their words.  Singing Woman on a mission, a spirit-quest, to cycle through every man in her nation, and she, like St Paul or John Calvin say that each, after she has sampled their produce, she claim each one is unworthy, and bad.