Body as a Metaphor for War by Edwin Olu Bestman
the street is without clothes/ so as the children birthed in liberia/ i am not supposed to write this poem/ but there are
the street is without clothes/ so as the children birthed in liberia/ i am not supposed to write this poem/ but there are
the air isn’t safe/
we’re afraid of inhaling &
exhaling/
drinking water is another idiot
damaging our stomachs
Sink down to the South,
Where the streets are wrapped with bits of rubbish,
Where the homeless are broken and stuck between rusty iron bars