As you can see from the map,
Here are the schools, mosques,
Churches, markets, shopping centres -
All tagged for future development.
Our documents indicate that
Prime real estate can also be found
In the suburbs where homes
Have conveniently been deconstructed
Into their raw materials.
Indications are, that although the cities
Have been punched full of holes,
They can be landscaped
By an abundant and cheap workforce
To a style that is to your liking.
We have listened to the concerns of some locals
And found them entirely without basis.
Although we don't have anyone that speaks
Native on our staff we are assured that
The majority feel the same way we do
And are understood to say:
Why rebuild when you can start again?
© GB 2007
Thursday 10 May 2007
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8 comments:
Frighteningly officious language, so smug and apt.
You speak so much truth here, it's sad. I am angry this happens more and more...
Gino -
Yes! Well executed -- and more than a little disconcerting.
Rightly done!
Felt as if you wre talking of Delhi.
this is chillingly accurate.
Unfortunaly what you're talking about goes on everywhere, no matter where you live. Your poem speaks the truth. Well done.
This took several re-reads. It's so different from what I usually read or write but in a great way. I love opening my horizons. Taking the point of view of some smug rich tycoon and thier companies and destroy the society they know nothing about without so much as a vote or even hiring a local workforce. Terrible state the world is in today. You did a great job putting together the right words to get accross the point.
This is what is about to happen to where I live... Thank you for words to say it with.
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