Tram
The tram screams&screams!barks!&snakes along the river.
A man's making faces at me on the other side of the banks
I don't care anymore.
I've run out of breath
Going against the current of morning traffic.
A pickpocket went for my wallet
and I'm sweating, like a horse.
All for nothing?
I am so stupid, in this city of millions
I should've just waited for the next one.
(1950)
(By Mh. Rustandi Kartakusuma. From Djakarta Dalam Puisi Indonesia (Poems of Jakarta), edited by Ajip Rosidi, Dewan Kesenian Jakarta, 1972, p. 79.)
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