son David, sitting beside me, stopped fiddling with his i-Pod and leaned forward to listen intently. The poem is written as a message from a little boy after Operation Murambatsvina ("filth removal"), in which the Zimbabwean government destroyed 700,000 houses as collective punishment against oppositional communities.
nights with ghosts
from MUT Gegen Rechte Gewalt: Poets Against Dictatorship
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