Hunger and roses
I have not spoken of Brexit find it trivial
False pride and old people thinking of was time
When they said, saved the world single handily
The arrogance of superiority is unavoidable.
The pampa is full of horses on yellow/green grass
If I were a horse, I would miss the forest.
Rowes of people wait outside a foodbank often
Overtired nurses who can’t feed their families
Skeleton looking pensioners hope for corn flakes
The experimental economy benefits the rich.
homeward
The landscape of my dreams is a Pampa
with occasional trees,
Like commas stretching to the horizon and not a full stop in between the extreme
I was born in a gorge between dark mountains
that was ok till the got a tunnel and Indonesian got work cleaning floors,
we`re now patronizing and multinational.
Then an Arab arrived and many joined NF, except the teacher how refused
to write anything with semi-colons and the swelling rank of neo- liberals.
She talked a lot of nonsense
And killed a whale of conscience
In the city of Tampa
Under Mrs. Fleu and Pampa
Begrudged she lost a poll sense
7/7/7/7/7 Limerick
Im Nachtflug allein
Am Boden nur spärliche Lichter
Postflug über die Pampa
Exupéry zwischen Himmel und Erde
Einsamer Flug ins stille Nichts
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Alone in nocturnal flight
Only sparse lights on the ground
Courier flight over the pampa
Exupéry between heaven and earth
Lonely flight into silent nowhere
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Solo en vuelo nocturno
Solamente dispersas luces en la tierra
Vuelo correo sobre la pampa
Exupéry entre el cielo y la tierra
Vuelo solitario en la tranquila nada
Note: French pilot and author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944) was worldwide famous
for his book Le petit prince (The Little Prince). He was a courier pilot in Argentina and
Northern Africa. During a reconnaissance flight in 1944 he was reported missing over the
Mediterranean Sea
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