Tuesday, October 16, 2007

News at Eleven: This was the moment when my 11-year-old

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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