Poetry.
The text culminates in a lexicon standoff, where Scofflaw uses metaphysical means to avoid a character assassination, battling against the culling of words from the language..
The content ranges from the effect of pesticides on Manitoba butterflies to the reworking of a John Newlove poem on Indigenous peoples to Native remains beneath the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.
For the most part, the poem is a lyrical dialectic flowing between a shadowy figure known as Scofflaw and an enigmatic we.
Scofflaw is a long poem, a playful exploration of Indigenous-Settler relations amid globalized pressures.
Poetry