So, fellow poets, Rwanda’s safe…isn’t it?

Tell that to our friend, Innocent Bahati,

The Kigali school teacher, whose words are illicit,

And offensive to Rwanda’s high and mighty.

Come on, you poets, do you fancy a visit

To Rwanda to tell Bahati: it’s safe!

Well you can’t, because Bahati’s simply, disappeared,

Desaparecido, as Thatcher’s generals would say.

Worldwide, one hundred writers have voiced their fears,

Amongst them Margaret Atwood and Michael Ondaatje,

Oh come on, you wordsmiths, you know that it’s safe;

Cruella simply asks that you all have more faith!