Perpetual Motion

...most Kuwaities have little regard for the environment and litter constantly, low paid street workers are hired to clean up the mess, especially after national celebrations...

Perpetual Motion


Picking the litter each day

An old man younger than me

With a

Bright yellow construction jump suit,

One old shovel,

One bent and worn rake

Each day and

Every Liberation Day,

National day

After crazy celebration

A million spray cans and their

Red lids litter the streets

This old man serves to

Pick the urban flotsam

Discarded in celebration without care

This man in the yellow jump suit

Who no one sees

The one with the straggly white beard

The wrinkled dark skin

An invisible man

Graciously accepts a quarter dinar

From one driver who cares.