<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=398613" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Johannesburg</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">There are mini-bus taxis everywhere<br>hooting, swerving, stopping anywhere<br>and people on the street<br>shouting to each other<br>as if they are not<br>in talking distance, <br>but as if everybody is deaf.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some hawkers are selling<br>sweets, cigarettes and newspapers<br>while others are cooking maize, <br>porridge and eggs.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Youngsters stand next to<br>parking meters showing<br>open parking spaces<br>and demanding money<br>to watch vehicles parked there.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some hobos sleep <br>in tattered blankets<br>and smell of wine<br>and liquor and the sick<br>sweet odour or retching.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Prostitutes walk up and down<br>street corners in mini skirts<br>and t-shirts <br>with nipples showing through<br>and have hello smiles<br>plastered across their faces. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some gum sniffing children<br>beg at traffic lights<br>with twisted arms and legs<br>and other beggars<br>have posters wishing you well<br>or telling you to go to hell.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">People queue in lines<br>waiting for busses<br>and some stand smoking<br>while they talk<br>and businessmen, lawyers, <br>soldiers, secretaries<br>are walking quickly past<br>with briefcases, satchels, <br>and handbags</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and on the sidewalk<br>there is urine, <br>blood, vomit, some rotting food<br>and smoked cigarettes<br>and everywhere signs<br>of a city in a country<br>that is falling apart.</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=398613" data-title="Johannesburg de Gert Strydom" data-description="There are mini-bus taxis everywhere hooting, swerving, stopping anywhere and people on the street shouting to each other as if they are not in talking distance, but as if everybody is deaf. Some hawkers are selling sweets, cigarettes and newspap..."></div> </div> </div>

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