Rwanda 1994

America is a rich beggar
Scrounging for the only thing
It doesn’t possess
Heedless of faces,
Names, places …

It’s the will of the people,
I guess, but I didn’t vote for this—
Barely even heard about this—

Heard it mentioned once
Perhaps
In between stories
Of the paltry sex
Life of one man

With a million dead
One million dead