Venezuela 2016 Poem by SRIRANJI ARATISANKAR

Venezuela 2016

A hungry immovable stone rolling over
from Caracas to Amazonas, from Zulia to Amacuro;
Maracaibo, Lara, Falcon, Barquisimeto, Merida,
Barinas, Apure, Guarico, Anzoategui, Monagas,
Boliver, Portuguesa, Maturin, Miranda, Cojedes
All cities, villages pressed, squeezed, ridden, smashed..

The Rio Paragua, Rio Ornico, Rio Ventuari, Rio Caroni
Rio Claro, Rio Capanaparo, Rio Cinaruco, Rio Meta Rio Apure
And all full of black Tears
All roads covered with black blood dust...
All Trees withered with the sighs of Children-mem-women

Who made the stone rolling on?
Spot him (them)
Get him (them)
And throw him (them) under that hungry stone.