Article: Estelli, Nicaragua.(Poem)

 
   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 U.S. built tanks. 
   The people of Estelli 
   with their bare hands 
   dug tunnels under the walls ...

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