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Sam and Cliff: Pacing, 2015

Oil on Canvas

24 x 30"

Sam and Cliff: Pacing

Sam Sinclair knew

politics is a runner’s game

pacing is everything.

The last time I saw him

Sam asked, ‘Who are you

working for now?’ I knew

just what he meant.

How do you serve the people?

It was given that I would. This

Is what his generation

Raised our generation to do.

Sam, Cliff, Joanne, Thelma, Stan,

those oldtime politicians

toiled the long course til they won

Métis rights in the Law of our Land.

The race goes on.

Poetry by Anna Marie Sewell and Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail