Interlude II:

Che Guevara’s Bequest: Vallegrande, Bolivia, 1967 (redux)

A tinny mambo is piped from the room
spewing
sick yellow-green fluorescence.

The radiator squeals,
brass electrodes buzz;
blood-crusted, unnoticed,
Che Guevara’s finger lies
in a dusty corner

covered with mites
escaping
the evil heat.

“We’re investing, as a country, $81 billion a year in the incarceration system. What if we invested that money into the education system instead?”

—Ilyasah Shabazz / “There’s No American History Without Black History. It’s Time To Rewrite The History Books.”