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Politically-Correct<br />
This region is<br />
Arid<br />
Barren<br />
Cold:<br />
hospitable<br />
as the ruins of a burnt-out home<br />
charred,<br />
forlorn.<br />
Water sizzles here over baked stones,<br />
then drips away to nourish nothing,<br />
other sustenance ‘disappeared’<br />
–like those our tyrants deemed to be their enemies-<br />
Uncountenanced.<br />
And visions?<br />
Ah, as for those they are not born,<br />
but happen<br />
with the precision of newly-minted arrow-heads.<br />
that fall to strike at our feet,<br />
or<br />
wee boomerangs ricocheting into our heads<br />
doing their damage<br />
as they rush out and bang back in.<br />
This place, I swear,<br />
will be no good for anybody,<br />
or thing,<br />
if<br />
it was not also so<br />
imperiously commanded, and<br />
majestically essential:<br />
a strengthening<br />
must-space to sojourn<br />
to ward off decay and despair<br />
every now, and every then.<br />
Ama Ata Aidoo<br />
Hunger<br />
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