it's two US dollars to travel on top of a truck
from Rutshuru to Goma
it's thirty dollars for a two rooms apartment
in Goma; for two weeks
it's fifty dollars for a girl,
the whole night
it's a hundred and twenty dollars
for a watchman, the month
it's $40 for the wooden mask,
made locally, smiling
it's $15 for a meal at Doga, steak
French fries, avocado (two hours wait)
it's one dollar a day for a worker in the field
under the killing sun
it's $15,000 or more for the medical drugs
required to treat somebody with multiresistant tuberculosis
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[Picture: The dust of you by reading_is_dangerous] (On the road to Rutshuru, June 2008)
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bravo Reading,comme toujours,tu nous donnes l heure juste avec des mots des phrases,qui nous font voir la realite de cette vie
ReplyDeletemen always count and count with their own made up numbers whether they are true does not matter even if they shall never find the right score and know very well they 're out in the depths
ReplyDeleteand so when Death submits the real bill
who will pay for our selfishness ?
alas, not only humankind but Life and Earth
think of it, when you become a buyer or a seller ...
Thanks for laying it out so clearly. I would dare to add: It's 50 million $ to build a big plane to drop bombs on people.
ReplyDeleteWhat is the price to know if a dear friend is ok?
ReplyDeleteInteresting, the dollar amounts applied to various goods and sevices...how some are so far out of reach for so many.
ReplyDeletePriceless, the amount is, for a little happiness and peace of mind...the rarest of finds...a little "heaven on Earth."
Hope you are well. :)