Cancel that evening banquet in Oslo
Sumptuously staged in my honor
For the world’s peace according to Nobel
For the year of Our Lord 1979

Cable my apologies for non-attendance
To the several ladies and gentlemen
Who have purchased stylish dinner-suits
In radines for the spectacular day

Then kindly send to me in Calcutta
The equivalent of the banquet in cash
To provide 400 of the city’s poorest poor
With lunch and supper for 366 days.

©2003, Timothy Wangusa

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