In insult verse, the accuracy of the charge matters less than its confident presentation. To be assertive is to be right; to be memorable is to win.
Each morning I skim the books they study, a few minutes to remember that anger
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If we are at war let the orchards show it, let the pear and fig fall prior to their time, let the radios die and the hounds freeze over their meat.
Like scribes, they lean closer, watching the old men he blessed for long life stand and listen.
For the people in these portraits, life goes on with little hope of an end to the violence. Still, life goes on.
The Dadaab Refugee Camp and the Eastleigh neighborhood of Nairobi have seen an influx of hundreds of thousands of Somalis seeking a better life—but, as often as not, Kenya can offer them little.
