Chika Unigwe
Seven leather suitcases , made
in Italy, bought in England, bulging with goods
from Abroad:
drugs to keep her from falling ill on our water
packets of cereal to fill her stomach
For how can you trust our food?
detergent to wash out our dust
Which possessively hugs and fiercely clings on
spoiling the freshness of American-shopped clothes
My been-to cousin came home yesterday
In blue jeans trousers
and a pair of Nikes
And the heat caught her "quite by surprise!"