My Home and Native Land

Quebec a nation? Really now? Quebec?
A million Anglos, some Italians, Greeks,
Where no one knows until a person speaks
What ethnic background he came from: a Czech,
A circus acrobat, an auto wreck
On Main Street, offspring of two Gaspé geeks
Applying algorithms to the freaks
Who block the lanes, such a pain in the neck.

Your native sons are everywhere, like me,
And Lake Champlain's in the United States.
You can't just lock the door and bar the gates
To keep out immigrants and history.
What will your children think of when they see
James Wolfe on those commemorative plates?