Daylight Shouts On Market Street
Daylight swerves around the road
Shouting from corner to corner
Morning comes alive
The traffic starts rolling
And people start flowing
I walk briskly up the road
And walk along Market Street
The layover vendors are just waking up
And some of them are escaping the night rush
A big broad woman hanging over her stall
With yam, banana, pumpkin and everything in the mix
shouts at the man behind her
As if she has somewhere urgent to go
“do you have any cologne?”
And the man calmly uttered,
“Mi no use cologne”
The body sweat drips form her face
And her grouchy voice sets the tone for the day
He looked at her with a subtle grin
While he tries to take in everything
She speaks loudly above the stench
And looked desperately for early morning shoppers
I walked down the bare empty street
With no emotional feelings
Just recuperating from yesterday’s pain
That made me feels a bit lame
I did not see anything to console me
And the pile of garbage lined up on the street
Was enough to disgust me
I kept walking along Market Street
With no single thoughts running about me
Only the morning I could see running in front of me
And I could hear a distant song
beckoning me to come along
The market people start to set out their stall
To catch the early morning shopper
They too were reminiscing over last night’s sales
That kept them waiting all night
It’s Sunday morning for heaven’s sake
What were you doing up so late
The angry man ferocious yawn
nearly blow up a terrible storm
The Chinese wholesale store
Lined the street from door to door
There is no local business here anymore
And it is very hard for the locals to sell their clothes
Oh I am thinking too hard,
no it’s just that I hate to see people suffering
They were selling in the market all night
And it’s not the price you want to pay
To earn you’re living all day
People come and go but the regular people
Shouts are part of the daily show
Come and shop with me.
Buy all you can from the people you meet on market street.
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