For Random Learning Comes: Essays Fiction and Poetry by Andrea LeDew
For Random Learning Comes
For Random Learning Comes: Essays Fiction and Poetry by Andrea LeDew
This poem was written in July 2018 in response to a prompt from What Pegman Saw. a writing challenge based on different locations in the world each week. This poem is set in Kinshasa, which was once part of the Belgian Congo, Africa. It talks generally about statues portraying King Leopold of Belgium. You can …
{I first published this essay in August of 2017, in response to the Charlottesville debacle. At the risk of having this be perceived as little different than our President’s own comment, that “There are good people on both sides,” I tried at that time to convey my conflicted emotions on the subject of Confederate …
