Somewhere, Somehow

Somewhere in Madagascar a baobab yields its fruit Somewhere in Australia a thylacine chases a bandicoot Somewhere in Timbuktu a man is speaking in Urdu Somewhere in the Blue Ridge Mountains an old woman stirs burgoo As some skinny guy tiptoes on skyscrapers Vagrants and vagabonds burn yesterday's newspapers As the world turns, my heart yearns and my stomach churns and as time grinds my mind discerns and my soul is spurned A child plays somewhere with wild animals and an orphan blesses the food with refined cannibals A dog lays somewhere on someone's front porch and an orchard withers somewhere, its ground is scorched