What shall I do, living
in Peru, with this report
of systemic failure
in U.N. monitoring
in Sri Lanka, how
bureaucrats drove away
from the disaster to come,
buried hard- earned stats
about civilian deaths
and allowed themselves
to be brow-beaten,
harassed, shouted
into silence while
40,000 humans
died , mostly from
battering shells rained
from fighter jets?
I belong to the family
of nations. I have
a vote in one
democracy,
dream of serving
humanity,
in the Secretariat
of the United Nations.
of inside influence,
reform within, extracting
the worm, of keeping
a job close to the Secretary
General, speaking
into his ear, saying
fix your flank, Man.
Souls are howling.