mikeham

Dear Terri, loved your poem; loved the rich detail and how it evokes the African social landscape; how you repeat the ironic 'I'm a journalist'; it reminds me, too, that even in Canada some of your lines could be relevant, Canadian style: the markets, the experts, the exclusive seediness, and "the thugs, street girl..parking attendant..."in fact you really evoke this African world within a global world gone astray. I will read it again because for me it is a haunting poem. It even brought a memory back: sitting in a walk-in clinic filled with by people waiting... and a woman insisting she couldn't wait too long because she was a journalist and too busy to wait. There is so much clarity of feeling, too, in your poem that is wonderful, so please write more and more...