I saw scavengers reaping other peoples harvest
Forfeited memories will create new ones
Bidders by the hammer haggling for more
Carting away salvage from distressed dreamers
Merciless banks exploit then subdue
Licking their lips with fortified glee
Scrapping off the harvest from fields already dry
Marauding agents with files and injunctions
A chain so vicious that trades in tears
Of abandoned dreams and subdued fears
Its a sorry sight the auctioneers yard
Resurrecting hope in exchange for a song
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Pangani Auction Yard, Nairobi
May 2019
For George and Denis
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