Ilankai Tamil Sangam
Association of Tamils of Sri Lanka in the USA
Published by Sangam.org

Wearing Thin

by Indran Amirthanayagam, July 15, 2011

These smart, smug,
schmucks who believe
9/11 gave then license

to stamp out restive
minorities, labeling
every kid and his mum

siblings and progenitors
of terrorists, gypsy
population

of the Vanni
game for shelling
in hospital, tent,

on the road, revealed
now by trophy camera,
cell phone, drone,

Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields
requiring a worldwide
publicity campaign

for the Rajapakse boys
who must be perplexed
by the extreme foreign

exchange cost
of their millennial
triumph. The world

will forget they bet,
not realizing
that Simon Wiesenthal

is a living concept,
and even the patience
of the United States--

about lack of
unmonitored access
to the North,

persistence
of prisoners hidden
out of sight,

extrajudicial
killing in peace time,
all the blanks

in the nation’s
accounting books,
is wearing out.