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Wil of Arabia
The hot, sandy sun beats
The ground like an angry giant
Belting a toy drum
A year's seasons
Are four brands of punishment
Than a turn of light,
Colour, sound, leaves
This is the desert
The streets exist for sweepers
Past them we speed
Away down the 30 like a bushfire up a
Slope of crackling gumtrees on a hot day in Australia
This is a land filled
With story tellers
Of carpet sellers
Who refer to their rugs as babies
Refusing sale to a bad home
Who are so genuine
So filled with non commercial
Uncool love
They will tell you a story
For half an hour after the sale
Which took 2 hours of other stories to get to
For their pleasure in your company
Capitalism can be done right.
This is one of the world's gas stations
Ships snake across the globe
Stopping off at the North and South Piers
On a journey of replenishment
So Americans can do their road trips
Greeks can ride their ferries
Australians their mining trucks
And so Malaysians can fly
So we can all live this modern life of
Total
Annihilation of the ancient challenges of survival
This oh so satisfying existence want of want
Where the Arabia I know
Is no sweat in summer for the aircon
The twist of a throttle
Offers 50 times walking pace
Where a 1000 mile boat trip
Is no pain for the diesel slurping
House sized monster of torque
Churning a blade of metal
Unstoppable by the most persistent of Pacific doldrums
Where food tumbles in abundance
Not from branches but shelves
Oblivious to the fashion of the sun or rain
In places called
Super
Markets
We have won
We have beaten the weather
The earth itself
Is our thing
We are not Locke's fearful beggars
Stumbling through a Nature
Whose primary response is to try to kill us
Our lives are not solitary
Nasty
Poor, brutish or short
Thanks to oil
Thanks to Arabia
The life of a * poorest of us lead
Except
The 1000 construction workers
Dead
So far
In creating Qatar's world cup fantasy
They are the poorest of us
Their lives
Are nasty
Brutish
Short
But should we let them suffer in solitude?
Heart attacks due to
Overwork in the height of summer
Without airconditioning?
A life of struggle as though the
Benefits of oil never found them,
When it lays all around them?
What does Wil do in Arabia?
What will you do in Arabia?
Live like a *.
*contact privately for this word
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