One Time at a Time | John Chinaka Onyeche | Poetry

  After listening to John Denver’s “I Want to Live”   The earth yields enough grain, fat with cattle— why do we still name countries by their hunger and their hunger? We call ourselves family around conference tables while men in rooms draw lines on maps that become famines, that become flags. They carve the […]

One Time at a Time | John Chinaka Onyeche | Poetry
  After listening to John Denver’s “I Want to Live”   The earth yields enough grain, fat with cattle— why do we still name countries by their hunger and their hunger? We call ourselves family around conference tables while men in rooms draw lines on maps that become famines, that become flags. They carve the […]