Heat Wave

Jan 2, 1999

Another feature article says that

In the land of the new nuclear

The fifteenth amendment falls hard

On top of and not under the Senate

Of the semi-democratically elected ambitious

As a hot wind burns very untimely this year

In the Margalla Hills which cannot defend

Against bureaucratic and elitist tea parties

Discussing all aspects of and Chagai

With Uniforms, Nawabs, Begums, and the Stars

Who wait impatiently for a Washington discovery

When it was really time to close ranks

Behind the basic human and needs

Of a wronged people who are branded

As troublemakers in a paradise lost

To the crimson product of violence but

Their freedom is in the hands of time and

With whoever holds the scales of

In the New World Order which tips towards

Markets just opened to technological fast

While the barbecues are still going in the bazaar

In a country that has seen time

And is no stranger to the touch of the Loo\*\*.

Ras Siddiqui is a Pakistani-American writer and journalist based in Sacramento California. USA