Estelli, Nicaragua.(Poem)

National Catholic Reporter | March 17, 2000| | Copyright 
 
   We walked off 
   our air-conditioned tour bus 
   to witness a funeral procession. 
   The children clung to their parents 
   who stared back at us as if to say: 
   Notre Americano, what the fuck are you doing here? 
   Members of our group 
   snapped pictures of the coffin, 
   a sixteen-year-old man 
   killed in battle 
   with bullets wrapped in American tax dollars. 
 
   That afternoon 
   a city councilman invited us into his office. 
   His fingers tapped anxiously upon the desk. 
   He recalled 
   Somoza's troops invading Estelli 
   in the spring of 1979 
   with ...

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