The Hunger Game

Come little children- come and eat-There’s plenty all scattered about Stale flat bread and biscuit crumbles -You must dig them out Banana peelings and lettuce leafs -You may clean the dirt off neat Perhaps the peelings of a Fu Fu dish- just to make a sweet Come little one- come and eat- The little child’s belly cries The flies will lead you to bush meat- the maggots where it lies Coconut and cassava cakes- perhaps a little rice Just below the burning heap where the neighbor’s dead dog lies The smorgasbord lies beyond the hill-the town’s other side Forgive the stench- just pass the boneyard -where your nine year old brother died