A thousand miles south its still one o'clock
Its just hotter
As I sit on a plastic stool in the dust
Watching a woman chopping greens into
a plastic bowl
While a pot of oil steams on coals and branches
Red with foam
and a chicken avoids my gaze
I've been here before
Further south
on a fading spit of rock and sand
fishing boats all around
that man sat in chains;
who did the same and worse
and got
what he didn't deserve
Fishing boats all around
'Do you remember me?
Your friend, where have you been?'
Too late
We flee again
to cows cars
traffic
kids in the streets.