This poem is taken from Stand 232, 19(4) December 2021 - February 2022.

Khadijah Ibrahiim Surrender
Man, de walk, dead dey watch him
Martha Beckwith 1969

What-ah-bam-bam,
What-ah-ting ee…

          when
          when


We come to count
the dead we once knew

Mournfulness

feeds the dead rice
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