~REGINALD
GIBBONS~
LOGIC
Far to the west of where white settlers
had
homesteaded or congregated in towns,
a Sioux woman, at the gasping plea
for mercy
of a wounded U.S. soldier who until
he fell hard from his horse had
intended, tried,
and failed to murder her and all
her clan,
said to him just before she struck
him finally,
"Did you not come all the way here
to be killed?"
© by Reginald Gibbons
