they came at night blood-thirsty soldiers guns cocked for battle with unarmed singing flag-waving civilians
call the massacre by its name call it "muhammadu buhari" call it "callousness" call it "disdain" call it "dictatorship"
they came at night shot into a crowd lied in the morning said none dead said none taken said it must have been aliens no, not us
they came at night while the elites and their children hid behind tall gates abroad in bourdillon in aso rock and the poor and their children burned