who ***** the girl & set her young body on fire;
who ***** the twin Dalit sisters & hung them
from a tree; who shot the waitress & got away
w/ it; who snatched teenage girls off the street
& held them prisoner for years;
who ***** & killed the mother
& her two daughters & set the house on fire;
who heard Kitty Genovese being murdered &
had to live w/ the memory the rest of their lives;
what nation murdered millions of baby girls
& found itself haunted by the ghosts of bonfires