School Girls and Sugar Daddies

Compliant

with a cast iron horse rocking rhythmic

dodging the drizzle of cold salty drops

the little ones will recall later

this is the very moment

they collaborated

with contrived sophistication

to destroy the rest of their lives.

~Kobina Wright

Kobina Wright, author of, “Say It! Say Gen-o-cide!!” about the Rwandan Genocide of 1994, also co-authored “A Crime And A Simplification Of Something Sublime,” and in 2010 wrote a volume of nuler poetry titled, “50.” In 2012 her poem “Done Drove Me Crazy” was featured in Mainstreet Rag. Her art has recently been featured in Boxcar Poetry Review.

Artwork: Burning Soul, by Hashim Ali