Tuesday, April 15, 2008

The Night I Realised


Everything stinks 
like an Indian street
The man's 
breath 
who asks me about my country

He says

"How you find my country miss?"

As i exhale 

cigarette smoke 
from my lips

That smells of mixed 
spice chai
 of pigs carcass 
on bitumen 
 pink rubbish piles
in the gutter

Sweet 
perfumed sari's

women's 
eyes 
and
Men's 
urinals

        Basket 
of mandarin 
peel

and 
Boys 

Who shove 
their  Old 
Man's 
hands

in 
tailored 
jacket 
hand-me 
downs



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