the fire and the iceAudrey Brown-Pereira
the flood brought hollywood to samoa
with the fire and the ice
melting to flood the fugalei market and all of apia
with the police
and the rumours
and the media
and the lawyers and the people
(so many)
the dvd never show the
things we seeing
the things people feeling
the things that be happening to
the people
and the family?
the fire and the ice
be burning
burning
blue-flame-white
like antarctica become a blood atlantis
water be heavy & thick with stool pigeons & rats fat & cats fat
& pigs too lazy to hunt pray just eat cockroaches on back with wings broken but floating
like take away you know? eating out with no doggie bag
on tv say
"they gonna fix the drainage & the sewerage"
on street say
"stop cinema drowning in dirty flood"
closing shot broken cross at the end of the road
with coke bottle floating in mud.
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