Just finished reading "What is the What" by Dave Eggers. This is a biographical novel of Valentino Achak Deng, one of many thousands of people--mostly young boys--displaced and driven out of the Sudan by civil war. I am now, more than ever, convinced that these souls were offered as an "acceptable" sacrifice to the "gods" that be--and fueled by the FIRST WORLD'S (mostly the USA's) insatiable appetite for crude oil products and/or the alleged uranium "found" in the Sudan (and said by the Bush administration to have be used to raise money for Ben Laden.)
Check out www.valentinoachakdeng.com
Stone Pillows
a thousand
thousand
souls walk'd there
and laid
their little bodies down
just to rest...there....
on the red n dusty ground
laid their heads
upon a stone...
their backs
upon the arid land...
cicada whir...whimper'd prayer...
the whirling wind
first, gentle as mother's touch
dries their tears....
then eats their dust
leaving their bones
like scattered twigs
among the stones
--Nana K, 2/23/2007
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