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I didn't bring my C.V.
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G.C.E. O/L five, three
A/L bio one C, Two S
any job will do
One hundred thousand
square pegs
vying for
half a dozen round holes
the carpenter
keeps on turning out
thousands more of square pegs
no one bothers to tell him
all the holes are round
and too few
kite
against the deep blue sky
the multi-coloured kite
flew
over the top of the green trees
heavy with fruit
the golden green waves
on the ripening rice field
stared up at the
blue and red tail on the kite
at the other end of the thread
the little boy
in ragged shorts
ran along the road
trying to hold aloft
the used polythene bag
tied to a piece of tape
from a discarded video cassette
black acrid smoke
spewing out of factories
settled slowly on
rotting garbage
in blocked drains