Maserati
16 July 2019
DIANE MANDUI MIRIO
| An entry in the 2019 Crocodile Prize Award for Poetry
Maserati
This nation is in pain
She knows she can't gain
For reasons she can't tell
But one day time will tell
Maserati
Why are you delaying
Her children are dying
You gotta be going
Maserati
The roads are inaccessible
The schools are deplorable
Clinics are inoperable
Maserati
Drugs and alcohol rule the streets
Guns and axes can't be treats
Water is not sweet
We can think and tweet
But we can't beat them shits
Maserati
Modus operandi
They don't need nobody
They can be that body
You can be nobody
Maserati
Is for Apec city
That has no pity
For the rest of the country
Diane - Distinctive expression, draws attention. Elegy tearing of PNG?
Of subject, add prisons. Read Adam Reed, 2003, "Papua New Guinea's Last Place".
Posted by: Lindsay F Bond | 17 July 2019 at 09:59 AM
I gotta say this one made me smile. But really this is good. Should turn it into a song.
Posted by: Thaddeuse | 16 July 2019 at 04:42 PM
Nice and to the point. People keep dying because nobody addresses the health care system that has collapsed, and the education system that is close to grinding to a halt.
Posted by: Albert Schram | 16 July 2019 at 04:05 PM