They’re carving them up-
Kenya is

Out yonder
from Africa darkest-
a no-no
for their opponent’s
head of state.

They’re carving them up-
Kenya is.

A near-hysterical commentator
plays with words
in Hamilton, New Zealand
at the Rugby Sevens:
the USA is taking on Kenya.

They’re carving them up-
Kenya is.

An unfortunate word-choice
given Africa’s blood-letting status
(there is a great variety
of wildlife out there
but leave that for now)

(the country, too, is
the location of some
of the earliest
human settlements
dating back 2.5 million years)

They’re carving them up-
Kenya is.

Barbarian, savage, philistine
there is power in language
and (home) language is power
as Kenya’s Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
and innumerable others have told

(and World Read Aloud Day
has come and passed us by)

They’re carving them up-
Kenya is.