Morning walk

She walks---

The little girl

Barefoot,

Thin

Dark,

Matted hair,

Patched frock,

Along with her

Doddering father

Sick, coughing,

On their daily morning raid---

In the garbage dump of the

Overeating city

Tilting towards obesity;

The two famished and stinking figures

 Rummaging the mountains of garbage;

Floating phantoms in the

Dumping ground,

 Flitting here and there

Shooing off the screeching hawks,

While a bus carries kids

To a school far-off;

Poor Reeta looks longingly,

She knows for her---

The schooling

Starts

And

Ends here

In the vast stinking dump.