BIRDS: at the zoo lake
©
Farouk Asvat
The
blue cranes seem bewildered
Having
flown in for a drink
From
the rural wastelands
The
white geese are arrogant
Having
learnt their petulance
From
the streetwise city kids
The
Egyptian geese seem most at home here
Having
stayed behind on their journey
From
the Cairo to the Cape
The local lovebirds seem out of place here
Having made it a place of pilgrimage
From another dreary day in the townships
Mistaking it for a catwalk in Paris
(For this is the nearest thing
to
the left bank of the Seine)
Or the colonial gardens of Barcelona
These young chicks circling the lake
Like pilgrims circling the Kaaba
Strut like fashionable Arab girls in
Regents Park:
Red miniskirts and pink blusher
Camouflaged under their black cloaks
©
farouk asvat
composed:
1995 [zoo lake, johannesburg, south Africa, under new apartheid].
[] Acknowledgements:
Birds: at the zoo lake was previously published in:
Goodreads, (usa, 11.08.2014, September 2014):
I Dream In Long Sentences (kindle, 2015);
I Dream In Long Sentences (amazon paperback,
p28, 2015).
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