<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=398388" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>I wonder how I fit into my new country</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Respect for other people<br>and self are missing<br>and while I go up the steps<br>of the bus<br>teenage girls are shouting<br>loudly to each other<br>and a ghetto blaster, <br>is playing very loud music<br>and it’s much worst<br>than in a mad bazaar.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">a Toddler pushes her fingers<br>one after the other<br>into her nose<br>and draws lines<br>on seats and windows<br>and her mother<br>wipes her nose against her jersey.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">An overweight lady<br>sits down next to me<br>and there’s a sharp smell<br>that hits my nose<br>and no other seat<br>to go to<br>and I wonder if she<br>bathed this week, <br>or this month<br>and are scared that head lice<br>are going to jump on to me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The bus draws away<br>and misses a car narrowly<br>and jerks<br>while the driver changes gears, <br>as if he’s struggling<br>to get the right one.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When I get off at the bus stop<br>there’s a man relieving himself<br>and the urine smell, <br>hangs heavy in the air<br>and I wonder how<br>I fit into my new country.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=398388" data-title="I wonder how I fit into my new country de Gert Strydom" data-description="Respect for other people and self are missing and while I go up the steps of the bus teenage girls are shouting loudly to each other and a ghetto blaster, is playing very loud music and it’s much worst than in a mad bazaar. a Toddler pushes he..."></div> </div> </div>

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