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12/10/08
Zimbabwe, Mugabe: 2008
How can it possibly be That a country once considered a model of financial stability, The breadbasket of sub-Saharan Africa,
Is now a nation of almost ten million wretched human beings, In which 16 percent of the population suffers from HIV, A quarter of all the children are orphaned,
Life expectancy has plummeted, in less than two decades, From sixty-three to forty-two years, And where, since August, cholera has claimed 13,960 souls?
And how can it possibly be That a sovereign state's economy can run a rate of inflation That looks, on paper, like this: 231,000,000 percent?
Sadly, the answer is too transparent, too easily explained. All it takes is one corrupt, tyrannical, insane president Wielding fear and murder to protect himself from his people.
12/10/08
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