Friday, February 5, 2010

Joyous Moment

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Earphone problem solved, enormous
sunscreen on my head, simply wound
the earphone cord around the sides
a colleague said it looked funky
so there I went to the library

Playing I am a journalist in a war-torn
zone of Africa walking down the street
amongst an exotic African throng with
gunfire in the distance, desperate
people expecting the newspaper

To report their plight, cynical mercenaries
waiting to fight with me, using the movie
‘Blood Diamond’ as a framework to give
joyous meaning to this moment in time
and having such fun…
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