Thursday, July 18, 2013

Sugarcane Grandpa

Wednesday June 26th, 2013

I ate sugar cane today. I felt like I was gonna break or chip a tooth. You are supposed to strip it with your teeth. I wasn’t very successful. It was delicious though.
Later in the day we talked to a grandfather outside his shop. He told us he had been robbed several times so now he just has an empty shop that he guards with no goods inside.

Waiting
He’s just waiting
Waiting for someone to save him
Chasing away goats and visitors for they could be thieves
It is in the shade
Near the bakery
By the primary school
He raises a handmade broom of sticks
The wind blows fiercely
Through the trees
The old man points and mutters in a language that I cannot understand


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