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Filthy Senryu - Newtown, Eastern Cape In Africa

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In 2022, Nelson Mandela's famed South Africa, sanitation STINKS especially outside big cities. Municipalities only burn diapers ('KIMBIES', in local lingo) as women & a few men walk the LOCATION (or townships like Newtown for mixed race, locally called Coloureds). But before daylight burning of trash & plastics, dogs tear diapers on every street. One fails to convince even educated people of color to wait for the weekly trash trucks, or for feeding the filth to the fires burning a few times each week. Instead we have the following senryu situation

II senryu from South Africa
Rain in slow showers
Feed bush, Nature, dirt-roads -
Mud white - gel, torn diapers

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Paulette Calasibetta Date: 3/26/2022 12:17:00 PM A tragic tale of the existence of ignorance, even amongst the educated. It is not only in Africa but other places in the world. :)Paulette Login to Reply Anil Deo Date: 3/27/2022 12:21:00 AM Yes dear Paulette. Jesus can help us be less greedy selfish, destructive ... Most faith call us to be good stewards of ourvplanet-home. Our hope, as we talk openly of this problem

Joe Dimino Date: 3/26/2022 8:04:00 AM :) very perceptive; we are our own pollution while breath of fresh air -- and we are nothing, left to our own devices. Plastic choking our fish. Plastic philosophies imitating Truth.... Login to Reply Anil Deo Date: 3/27/2022 12:19:00 AM In the oceans, tiniest bit of plastic cannot break down any further ... Eaten, so we pay in health, fir billions who consume sea- food. It takes little to make a change ... U gave me my next post. shalom sir

Jeff Kyser Date: 3/26/2022 5:21:00 AM I’ve been several places where the absence of trash collection and disposal just ruined the place. We are not an inherently clean people, apparently Login to Reply Anil Deo Date: 3/26/2022 5:50:00 AM ThsnX Mr. Kyser, for reading. But RSA is a modern e onomy, though not totally " first world," but our roles in international organizations create a lying "progressive" picture. If we could abolish plastic bags, it would match tiny French island REUNION's good efforts for Our environment