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They had come to me</div> <div> seeking shelter, telling me they were </div> <div> man-child of the promised land.  I knew </div> <div> I didn't trust the philosophy that invented </div> <div> them, so we negotiated, and they left their </div> <div> sandals on the doorway.  Who smells of exile </div> <div> has no ghost, but I was too engulfed in my </div> <div> own Rwanda to even see the white palm in the black night.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> MY RESPONSIBILITIES AS A PEOPLE'S POET</div> <bR> <bR> <div> The games are over, and</div> <div> I return to report the wars; the night</div> <bR> <div> is the excreta of the day, and</div> <div> I return to report the smell; the man</div> <bR> <div> is the child of the sun, and</div> <div> I return to report the scorch; the rain</div> <bR> <div> is the water of the seas, and</div> <div> I return to report the flood; the bridge</div> <bR> <div> is the secret of death, and</div> <div> I return to reverse the clock; the road</div> <bR> <div> is the hunger of the mind, and</div> <div> I return to fence the graveyard; the graveyard</div> <bR> <div> is the house of the unborn, and</div> <div> I return to donate some blood; the second</div> <bR> <div> is the brother of the minute, and</div> <div> I return to alert the hour; the edge</div> <bR> <div> is the end of the mind, and</div> <div> I return to caution the philosopher; the philosopher</div> <bR> <div> is the angel of death, and</div> <div> I return to alert the living; the flower</div> <bR> <div> is the gun of the lover, and</div> <div> I return to reason with the heart; the truth</div> <bR> <div> is the sword of the lie, and</div> <div> I return to arm the victim; the lie</div> <bR> <div> is the smile of the truth, and</div> <div> I return to trap the perpetrator; the victim</div> <bR> <div> is the brother of the perpetrator, and</div> <div> I return to clean the blood; the wretched</div> <bR> <div> is the child of the affluent, and</div> <div> I return to the science of humanity; the subject</div> <bR> <div> is the reverse of the object, and</div> <div> I return to bury my double edged sword; the dead</div> <bR> <div> is the audience of the living, and</div> <div> I return to act the drama; the living man</div> <bR> <div> is the judge of the dead, and</div> <div> I return to argue their case; the forest</div> <bR> <div> is the infant of the jungle, and</div> <div> I return to study the law.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> Whenever Sierra Leone restores its urgent sense of literature, Gbanabom Hallowell will be paraded as his nation's quintessential post-war writer.  Author of a collection of poems, <I>Drumbeats of War</I>, a collection of novellas, <I>The Lust of Cain</I>, and a collection of war essays and articles, <I>Tears of the Sweet Peninsula</I>, Hallowell, who holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Vermont College, is on the English faculty of the Islamic Saudi Academy in Virginia, and an adjunct professor of English at Prince George's and Howard Community colleges.  His essay, "The Claustrophobia of Exile: African Poets Writing in the Wasteland," appeared in the December 2005 issue of <I>The Writer's Chronicle</I>, and another essay, "African Verse & the Cultural Forces of World Poetry" will appear in the November 2006 issue of <I>Seabreeze</I>.</div> <bR> <div> THE MABAYLA REVIEW,</div> <div> an online literary journal to </div> <div> promote Sierra Leone writing. </div> <bR> <div> E. Gbanabom Hallowell</div> <div> Editor & Founder</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.mabaylareview.org/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.mabaylareview.org/"><U><I>http://www.mabaylareview.org/</I></U></A></div> <bR> <div>           </div> <div> <IMG SRC="3d94af80.jpg" border=0 width="330" height="248" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <I>My Immigrant Blood</I></div> <div> is an 84 page hand-sewn book with spine - $14.00</div> <bR> <bR> <div> TO ORDER  ON-LINE </div> <bR> <div> US and Canada click here</div> <bR> <div> <B>            <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="My Immigrant Blood"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="06-12"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="14.00"> <input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>     </B> <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/images/view_cart.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="display" value="1"> </form>  </div> <bR> <bR> <div> All Other Countries click here</div> <bR> <div> <B>           <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="My Immigrant Blood"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="06-12"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="14.00"> <input type="hidden" name="shipping" value="3.25"> <input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id151.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering by Mail"><U>To order through mail click here</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> </BODY>