Blood in the Water
(2018) (With a line from Dave Matthews Band’s song Don’t Drink the Water, 1998) As the others,the Africans, said prayers,hosted, protected, protested As seven-year-oldsschemed: surelyif
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(2018) (With a line from Dave Matthews Band’s song Don’t Drink the Water, 1998) As the others,the Africans, said prayers,hosted, protected, protested As seven-year-oldsschemed: surelyif
(2024) Apocalypse. I swear these hands where poetry pours out of were once capable of ruin. Unlike you, I will not pretend I haven’t killed
(2023) I could be normal and say I’m okayOr I could unravel before youopen my scars in the hope that you’ll find meinteresting. I could
(2024) The country I must still callhome wades in crimes committed without the fearof daylight. A grandpa from a village only reachable by trained feetspeaks
(2024) The Lord’s Resistance Army war has been over for 17years but you cannot surrender to sleep. You still hear it: ratatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatataboooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom! You carried those
(2023) I carry a metaphorical shell on my backA safe space that I can retreat intolike the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles action figures I would
Translated from Luganda by Ssebo Lule (2023) It’s because of the weight of its fat.The worries of this world.Maybe the snail is just lazy.It’s not
(2024) The city clock is quiet, did it ever beat in my lifetime?Perhaps in that of my mother’sin a younger Zimbabwe.At the edge of city hall,curios are
(2021) “Don’t wear your colors here,That’s cemetery gear” ~ the fugees Here is Uganda. Now. Don’t wear red, don’t wear blueOr the public and hired
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