SUSTENANCE! (a poem for starved children by Chikatito Jones)
I saw it quite clearly,
Though it was no more than a glimpse. It was the rich yellow –
The yellow of sun-ripened mangoes,
The 'opioro' mangoes of my youth –
Its surface marred by dark spots,
Like the painting of a three year old. The veins crawled like serpentine threads,
And its end was suspended