i
A tall man
Without clothes
Beautiful
Like a statue
Up close
His eyes
Are running
Sores.
ii
The Noble Savage
Erect
No shoes on his
feet
His pierced ears
Infected.
iii
“Quite incredible—
your hair-do is
most divine——
Held together
With cow dung?
You mean——?!
The lady stares
At her fingers.
iv
A proper English meal
Near the mountains
“More tea, please”
Down the street
A man walks
Quite completely
Nude.
v
Bare breasts loose
In the sun
The skin cracked
The nipples covered
With flies
But she is an old
Woman
What?—twenty?
vi
A Catholic church
The chaste cross
Stark
Against the purple sky.
We surprise a
couple there alone
In prayer?
vii
There is no need for
Sadness
After the dying boy
There is the living girl
Who throws you a
kiss.
viii
How bright the little
girl’s
Eyes were!
a first sign of
Glaucoma.
ix
The Karamojans
Never civilized
A proud people
I think there
Are
A hundred left.