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We're not sorry, al-Shabaab, for wasting
our troubled youths on African pleasures
your imported bullets will never find.
Your aims will forever miss us,
whose aging hearts have grown wise on
everything you so preciously despise.
So kill the kaffirs in the mall
to satisfy your schoolboy's mind.
We know those who can make you cry
why God is great, without books or prayers,
pure as a country who offered us
everything she had
all that is holy and wild
in the wicked smiles of lovely women
who have cursed you blind.
Rick Gray served in the Peace Corps in Kenya. He currently teaches in Afghanistan. He has poems forthcoming in Salamander and r.kv.r.y.