Saturday, June 4, 2011

Children of the colonized


No water runs,
no electricity flows
to the shacks
made of
cardboard, wood,
tarpaper, tin,
and whatever other material
lies at hand,
within which,
midst hunger and pain,
violence and want
on what was once
their ancestors’ land,
the children of the colonized
continue
and
suffer
and
die
and
love.

9 September 2001

Isla de Sal, Cape Verde Islands


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