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| For The Orinoco's Sky For the umpteenth occasion the engine acts up somewhere near Tucupita and I'm below coaxing the works pranging, banging with wrenches suddenly Akami is near to investigate what all the swearing's about and then Nazirah with her heart-racing stethoscopic eyes and then Boom! backfire We're all sooty giggles stumbling up to the deck trying to unsmirk, stand straight for the Orinoco's hooded camera box of sky a scudding cloud shutters the sun forever capturing this disheveled moment woman and man and child some sacred family |
In A War Son, fast sprouting into a man nosy about everything remember these days Watch your father cleaning the rifle study his face, those scarred arms he was caught in a war now feel my face, my shattered pulse I too was caught Akami smell the malaria in the rain taste our last bit of food then touch your stomach understand its anger right now you are in a war One day you will desire the world insatiably and then you will leave us Listen for the big band jitterbugging on his derelict radio you will begin to hiccup and dance inside outwards, everywhere temples of indigo and bitter almond I ask only you remember our faces, our arms for they are always about you you will need us when you fight the greatest war comes when all strife ends and you must learn to survive when all around you is finally inconceivably at peace
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