Run

They are jamming to red, blue, white songs while we bleed red blood from blue veins onto white parchment. Our blood is invisible ink for articles that never get written about a war that will not die. Blackened blue hands show raw palms on their undersides as we raise them to call to whomever sells us the guns, whomever reaps the profits that blood sows. Machine shots pellet Sundanese sons singed under the sun. Run, Run, boot clomps and boys without shoes across hot ass earth raging, running, no breath, no breathe. Mother, father, sister, brother, bodies eroded under the sun. Boat, plane, carry us G-d's cargo to the promised land. Red, white, blue, redwhiteblue, deliverance, deliverance. They judge, check turners to our destruction. Black blood spider webbed in our bones as we run to deliverance. And the howling tears the wind rushing through our appendages. Mother, Father, Sister, Brother. They offer us shelter but what of those trapped in the land. Torn to pieces aching, hurting, no breath, no breathe. Can't sleep without nightmares of running knife-wielding men. Wounds, wounds raw without me there to bear witness to Sudan. In Sudan where stomach acid is the battery acid that eats the lining of baby bellies protruding and the rice you forget to deliver is salvation for dry saliva mouths screaming death, mouths praying death, caverns of soul murmuring death. MOTHER, FATHER, SISTER, BROTHER. They cannot survive without water. Ashen tongues struggling, howling!

I'm at school, why do I try so HARD (redwhiteblue waving well fed music buying kids, when our music is the death dirge) I ask? I don't say that the reaper comes 24/7. He wants, he wants . . .

He craves, he craves Sudan. Swallow it down you will not know the difference. I can't go back there the reaper has the scythe waiting for my head. "I outran the reaper!" "I outran the reaper!!!" Sudanese bodies burn, his scythe raised. The Sudan sighs release. If we die, if we die, you will not know the Reaper dragged Sudan kickingscreaming, kicking and screaming to the ninth circle of HELL.