Everything's Perfect

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Accepting survival as intrinsically perfect can be difficult. Trying to imagine another’s “perfect,” daunting. So goes Rio’s poor, year after year and into the treasure fused Olympics.

Everything’s Perfect by Odin Roark Rio’s open market day Bag fillin’ Day old mango and limes Under tarpaulins-sweating Tank topped ladies “Baratas Baratas” The call for cheap cheap Bananas on barbed iron Catching high noon light Pleading to be eaten But browning at mach speed Two teenage girls Gathered food in bags Off to sell their own produce Flesh made servile for men Men’s every day refusal to pay for love Lessons learned painfully early Little goes as they’d like Unless of course They aspire to nothing Back in cardboard city The mangos prove over ripe But the limes squirt their juices Splattering beautiful eyes Making thankful tears of joy Another day’s survival Many believe Everything’s perfect Whatever that be

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Dr.Ram Mehta

Date: 9/28/2013 9:07:00 AM

thought provoking and inner feelings well expressed, Odin