State of Emergency

Dear Sir,
yesterday, the roads reeked
of the death of freedom,
and the military became
the vultures scavenging
over the corpse.
I am writing
to not tell you that
there is more meat
on an ant than
there are yams in our barns.
Sir, nothingness can and will
materialize into something
that cannot be tamed
by your scavenging vultures.

Younglan Talyoung