The Middle Aged Filipino Lady
Jostling for space as she buys Samak
For her curry
The Bengali from Chittagong
Selling farm fruits
In a wet market
In the heart of a Gulf Capital
These days,
Informal spaces as far from available
These days every inch is urban planned
The geotagged cartography
And food quality control regimes
Have no space for the informal
Wet markets have character
More than economics
Adds meaning to the terrain
The fish, fruits and the sugarcane juice
Beyond the Carrefour’s
A supply chain of the original kind
Where a bunch of bananas
Are a rial
The ethos in the shared space
Is however,
Priceless
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