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when I first heard Cher’s hit song “half-breed” on the radio

I asked my mom what that was and she said that’s you

she was a big fan of 60s/70s Cher who according to my mother

was always glamorous and cool and never

wore the same pair of bell-bottoms twice so

I don’t think mom understood that I would

internalize the lyrics of the chorus when trying

to place myself in the prairies of southern Alberta

where the only people who looked like me

were what racist yt people called halfbreeds:

the Métis, and the mixee children of

destatused Indigenous mamas and yt dads