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Geronimo

The poem

They said he had the mojo
no bullet could touch him
a gift from the Mountain Spirits
that watched over the land

His wives and children
were brutally murdered
so he went to war
against Mexico and America

For years he was chased
and always got away
and he survived
fearlessly walking through strafing gunfire

He was not a chief
but a medicine man
He was the last Indian leader
to finally surrender

In his youth he was
an unparalleled master horseman
He died a prisoner at 85
after falling off a horse

He was taken from his homeland
to which he never returned
His grave is not in his desert mountains
but in Oklahoma instead

They say he had the mojo
His name was Goyahkla
But the Mexicans and Americans
called him Geronimo

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