a beautiful friend of mine from sri lanka
ten years of friendship

and last night i shared with him
the translation of
the penny crimes

for when asking him of water
or cup
the words of danger and cost
are heard
not of freedom and life

the young child dies
without hot water
unable to wash the filthy cost
of freedom from her and his body

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