Disease

When your friend from The Abroad
talks about Nigeria like she is a disease
All the statistics
concerning the amount of homicides
and school shootings
in America
over the past decade
arrange themselves in your head
chronologically
Waiting to be deployed
with efficiency

But
You say nothing
Because have you not also
scrutinized Made-In-Nigeria labels
on sandals and clothing and medication
and wondered if it was
somehow
substandard
only because it was made
in this place
in this disease?