Alexander K Opicho
(Eldoret,Kenya;aopicho@yahoo.com)

Hallo Mr food  , allow me  to salute you  with Germany hello
I will also hug you with American hi and kiss you
with high sounding  french romantic salut
as I saw you  on the table in one peasant's hut
her shoals of children giving you a Kenyan Jambo,
each of them  ruthless and not exculpating you
each  chopping you off one after another
biting you horrendously like a  mutton in the canine
of a male lion  in the kingdom of noon day
forlornly you were  thrashed with no succour
those peasants ate you like ravenous hyenas
feasting on the ewe daily in apex of starvation
where erred you  to the peasants' sires
for they look for you with one sharp voracity
where will you take your body for a simple truce?