T Wignesan Poet Villanelle

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Villanelle:Wander Not Into a Land Where the Indigene's Indolent

Villanelle: Wander not into a land where the indigene’s indolent

Wander not into a land where the indigene’s indolent
Likely as not the country will be run by interlopers
Open-heartedness is often a cover for self-bemusement

The first signs crop up when lax morals make him relent
Shuts an eye to alien antics on his wife and his daughters 
Wander not into a land where the indigene’s indolent

When foie gras vacation rather than who runs government
Or the long weekend pont makes the migrant caretakers
Open-heartedness is often a cover for self-bemusement

Fanatics from dictatorships money-minters from the Levant
Drugsters* outsourced from banana republics’ carpetbaggers
Wander not into a land where the indigene’s indolent

And lo! Ere the cock crows every face in the pram’s sun-burnt
In one generation one-third pray through tongue-twisters
Open-heartedness is often a cover for self-bemusement

In two generations three-fourths take over government
Pimps drug-addicts loafers wage war with spiritual gangsters
Wander not into a land where the indigene’s indolent
Open-heartedness is often a cover for self-bemusement

* drug-pushers, drug-dealers, drug-addicts and their bankers

© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2014

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