Elephant in Street
There's an elephant
In the street
Like a taxi that's
Taken a wrong turn.
I reach out to touch its
skin
Like a hide
And two dark men approach
me
With a bag.
I think it's a knife
And panic
But it turns out to be a
banana
Which I can feed to the
elephant for 20 baht.
The elephant grips the
banana
With its nose
Like fingers
And I think how easy
Happiness is
Yet often so hard to
find.
