questions that follow. THE PRESS So what is the mountain deal? About the minister's son That makes boiling news? How come it was not whispered? When Tina's hospital bed was crawled With maggots And her eyes oozed pus Because the doctors lacked gloves? What about kasajja's only child Who died because the man with the key To the oxygen room was on leave? I have seen queues Of emaciated mothers clinging to Babies with translucent skins Faint in line And lioness of a nurse Commanding tersely 'Get up or leave the line' Didn't I hear it rumored that

who is the persona in this poem
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