This dossier is dedicated to the internally displaced Roma, Ashkali and Kosovan-Egyptian children and their families in Northern Kosovo driven from their homes and needlessly abandoned for ten years to suffer the deadly effects of heavy metal poisoning.
RED THINGS FROM THE SKY
A Poem by Paul Polansky
LEAD IS EVERYWHERE
ON THE GROUND
UNDER THE BARRACKS
IN FRONT OF US
BEHIND US
IF YOU’RE OUTSIDE
STANDING IN ONE PLACE
YOU SEE LITTLE PIECES OF RED THINGS
COMING OUT OF THE SKY
FALLING ON YOU
FALLING ON THE GROUND
THAT’S WHAT
WE’RE BREATHING
WHAT OUR CHILDREN
ARE BREATHING
FROM THE TREPCA
SLAG HEAPS
AND THE UN SAYS
WE DON’T WANT
TO MOVE
