Kolkata - 2

Kolkota, March 2012

On the street

In Kolkata

The busescarslorriestruckscowstractorsminivans

Compete for space

Diagonally head on side by side

And the heat and dust

Choke you

Drivers curse at pedestrians and 

vehicles glare at each other

and you journey on

In spite of.

Until

A small fish falls from an open truck

Full of still-live fish

On to the hot tarred road

From a kind of frying pan

To a kind of fire

And for a moment the serious faces

Scrunched up in the struggle for space

Relax, laugh,

Point at the strange small piece of life

Still trying  to live

In spite of.