Dust mop This story requires some exposition, so here goes My friend, let's call her Mary Because her name actually is Mary, works for Teach Tor America She teaches at Todd County Middle School On the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota And she has asked us Us being me and my girlfriend, name given upon request To teach a poetry workshop for her kids Great, with that out of the way, I would like to now say this I've been reading Sherman Alexie's poems for a few years now And he talks a lot about how Indian kids love basketball I, being a good, progressive, liberal, socialist, opponent of colonialism Wanted to assume nothing about Indian kids and basketball but Then they asked me to play some five-on-five, so I will say that these nine Indian kids can ball Humility is getting shook on by a four-foot-eleven boy Who is 11 years your junior I tore my shirt trying to block Dante And that is the extent of what I have lost to native Americans