Unknown Poem by Paul Warner

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Rats run across the floor,
Khmer music resounds,
the smiles flow free,
with echoes that cannot be heard.

Fat boy, fed by parents,
that bloat him out of proportion.
seventy percent starve, subsist,
yet the West feeds them in ignorance.

Why do you do this?
Black Lexus, look after my friends.
'The poor people always poor,
cannot save them'.

Makes me want to vomit.
These are your people,
why torment them?
One day the fire will ignite,
uncontrollably, rage out of control.

What can I say,
just observation of,
a looming black cloud,
maybe I be in the middle of it.
Who knows?

Friday, August 8, 2014
Topic(s) of this poem: philosophical
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
Teaching in Cambodia see the fat wealthy Khmer in their Lexuses taking money from a guilty West who want to maintain the status quo to protect their jobs.
Nepotism rules here. The rest subsist on a dollar a day!
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