Cree Tent

Lyrics

Cree tent.

What's been going through your mind
As of recent?

Something decent
Or must you ree-pent

My dollars be spent
Don't see the free rent
Don't know what he meant
Anxious due the clean dent

They used see-ment

Mid-bereavement
Like chocolate cream mint
Sweet
Cold
Bitter

I really mean it

I cannot be lent
A cure for dee-ment
I saw where she went

Pow wow me
Please, gent

I'll be
In Cree tent

Interpretation

Grief filtered through disorientation. The poem moves in clipped questions and fragments, signaling anxiety, loss, and financial strain. Images toggle between sweet and cold (cream mint), solidity and immobility (cement), and cognitive fear (dement). "Cree tent" and "Pow Wow" read as a turn toward communal ritual and shelter—seeking grounding, witness, and belonging when private coping fails. Emotional vector: anxious inventory → grief acknowledgment → request for communal holding.