A Piece Of Mind Poem by Job Ombati

'Things are already better,
With the NEW BETTER tissue paper'!
Screams a new advert,
On a bus stop shade.
'A piece of peace for you! '
So candid is the issue.

The ad is a splash of beauty;
A masterstroke of finesse.
But a cross the road,
A tout shouts vulgarity.
Behind the shade,
Is a temporal urinal.
And besides that,
a rotting rat.

'The economy is on a better bend! '
'Complete is the mend'
The politician screams.
He dreams:
'Things are already better! '
However bad the political weather.

The HIV patient has gone back
To the witch doctor's bark.
Mean is luck.
Trump won't lie.
And USAID so shy!
The TB patient is destitute.
Though she be no prostitute.

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