Lament for Kofifi Macu

<p>Something the dead know<br />is the head held in broken hands;<br />the drooping mouth-hole<br />a white speck of eye<br />leaking a tough sort of shame<br />a burnt rubber which blackens blackness<br />and wires which swaddle the victim<br />like a Pharaoh.</p><p>Something the dead know:<br />Bones whiter than white<br />shall inherit the earth.</p>