IN MEMORIAM There is no laughter in those critters No joy in their summer's day They crawled and we uttered not a word Often we cowered just to breathe another day Let it be written by all the scribes that are known It has been resolved here and nowhere else The value of property is greater than the sanctity of life Musa is dead because he broke a windowpane For a mangled box Falieu was properly felled Poor Fatou lost her life because the police chief lost his hat There is no reprieve for Isaac from the Mountain Let his blood run the slopes and drape the innocence below We all sleep well tonight! Raze their swings and bury their toys Discard their Forlumas and burn their shoes Dismantle and dismantle the children! Quarantine their mothers and crate-up their fathers Yahya reigns, so does seven yards of cotton and rain Sleep well tonight everyone, sleep well the eternal sleep ****Long Spear**** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------