Read the following excerpt from Joy Harjo s poem Everybody

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Read the following excerpt from Joy Harjo s poem Everybody Has a Heartache A Blues What feature of Postmodernism does this excerpt represent This silence in the noise of the terminal is a mountain of bison skulls Nobody knows nobody sees Unless the indigenous are dancing powwow all decked out in flash and beauty We just don t exist We ve been dispersed to an outlaw cowboy tale What were they thinking with all those guns and those handcuffs In a size for babies They just don t choose to remember We re here Truth is absolute and can be discovered through observation Utopian setting used to comment on contemporary life Blending of traditional and contemporary elements Decreasing contact with the actual physical world