19 May 2013
sometimes you don’t want
to rehydrate with powder
and on a hot summer-like
day you want to taste
the air outside in a
glass that you put to
your lips and savor
too bad for the foodies
and hipsters looking at
the photo wondering how
to get their hands on
the cachaca and maybe
even thinking i shoulda
used a shaker thingy
to mix it up but i simply
did what the people of
salinas showed me on how
they make a caipirinha
15 May 2013
A recent UN report states that 250,000 people died in the Horn of Africa due to a famine that occurred between 2010-2012. While cries for help went out during that time period, the bureaucratic answers were along the lines of “we only have 10 cents budgeted to feed each person…there’s not enough money.”
During that same period, the U.S.A. and other western regimes spent more than a combined US$1 Billion in the region to fight the “war on terror.”
Denan/Dhanaan, Ethiopia in the Ogaden Desert
Ethnic Somalis, living in the borderlands
on the edge of existence, off the maps
home to our human family
