Strolling leisurely downtown
Not too early and not too late at night
Streets back to quiet again
After a lengthy and busy day
Garbage heaps in every corner
Stray dogs here and there
Feeding on man's remains he
Miserely keeps from his fellow mortals
And heedless of their need and hunger
Generously squanders all year round
Homeless people lying in heaps
With no shelter but the vast sky
Others in a remote slimy corner
Drink out their woes into oblivion.

Mohamed Chhilif