The Bottle

Improbable recipe
For young blacks
A
Sad future

High as hell
Black Kids
Lying in a warm dust bed
Neither
Life
Nor
Breakfast guaranteed

No cereal

Just petrol and glue

And beside a small black body
Lies a bottle

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“The Bottle”
Written and Published by Paul Buttigieg

Published:: May 21st, 2008

Category:: Aboriginal Poems

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skye August 12th, 2008 @ 11am

young black boys of the future
sleeping on the floor

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Paolo’s Poems is the outpouring of verse and prose from Paul Buttigieg, an Australian published Poet worldwide and Member of the ISP., covering a myriad of personal topics.

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