40: South Dakota
- population:
- 804,194
- households:
- 290,245
- housing units:
- 357,240
- square miles:
- 75,885
- paragraphs:
- 3
- graphemes:
- 357
- narrator:
- 1st person
To the whiteman standing by the Coffee Corner in Regent Sunday morning.
I saw you watching, just like I saw the unpainted metal silos rising over the buttes and grasses, like I saw the low hangers and fenced-in lots at the edge of town, the concrete wall with its painted sunset over pitch-black plains.
I’m through with two-state solutions: I’d erase the lines and start again. Hit me back if you want in. This land could be our land.
I saw you watching, just like I saw the unpainted metal silos rising over the buttes and grasses, like I saw the low hangers and fenced-in lots at the edge of town, the concrete wall with its painted sunset over pitch-black plains.
I’m through with two-state solutions: I’d erase the lines and start again. Hit me back if you want in. This land could be our land.
October 4, 2010