<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=399649" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The new Pretoria</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why does this city with its Jacaranda trees<br>seem so much like the one <br>surrounded by mine dumps? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Its lines usually square lie broken<br>filled with tall towers gleaming<br>in the early morning summer sun.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sunnyside once peaceful<br>resembles Hillbrow, with poor homeless people<br>and Nigerian criminals walking the streets</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and at a park I pause<br>to sit on a bench under the shade of a tree<br>and minibus taxis drive past hooting</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the sidewalk is full of people<br>talking at the top of their voices<br>and unstoppable the crumbling, deterioration</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the fading into third world surrounds me<br>and at a tree not ten metres away<br>a black man pulls his pants down</div><div style="margin:10px 0">to relieve himself and whistles during the act<br>and the sweet scent of the flowering Jacarandas, <br>is suddenly gone </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and the air is filled with the stench of urine<br>and excrement and zipping his pants <br>the man asks me for a cigarette.</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=399649" data-title="The new Pretoria de Gert Strydom" data-description="Why does this city with its Jacaranda trees seem so much like the one surrounded by mine dumps? Its lines usually square lie broken filled with tall towers gleaming in the early morning summer sun. Sunnyside once peaceful resembles Hillbrow, w..."></div> </div> </div>

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