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Gaddafi Café

Graham Fulton

In the upstairs room of the coffee house
��date-faced ancients suck on hookahs,
gaze out the window, count the drops
��of rain still falling into the square.
��Smoke and coals and teeny cups;
they’ve breathed it all,
�� counted it all.

Three young lads stroll in, sit down,
�� scan around to see who’s looking,
pull out decadent Marlboro packs
�� beneath a portrait of Colonel G.
�� A passable form of infidel vice;
as Western as it
�� ever gets.

Outside in the souks the shops are full
�� of everything that you never wanted:
genie lamps and Colonel watches,
�� scorpions dead and pinned and framed.
�� Cat gangs scrounge in Crescent forges,
crime-free alleys,
�� Lockerbie hells.

In the upstairs room of the coffee house
�� date-faced ancients suck on hookahs,
gaze out the window, count the sparks
��of stars still falling into the square.
�� The faithful flow their way to prayer
beneath the porcelain,
�� mother-of-pearl.



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