Senator Natasha: I Hold the Dice

— You say I have wronged you. You say I have taken what was not mine, that my hands have strayed where they should not, that my power has become my pleasure, that my will turned your silence into chains. — Ah, but let the elders decide! Let them open their wise old eyes, let them look into my…

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The Hyena & the Goat

For Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan You call me predator— but tell me, little goat, did you not wander too close? Did you not dare to speak when silence was safer? The night has rules. The tall trees whisper them. The rivers murmur them. Even the wind—soft and knowing— hums the old wisdom: “When the hyena grins, the goat must bow.”…

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