South East Shanghai Poem by abu tarek md tahsin

I used to carry parcels
In South East Shanghai
Sometimes during the day
Sometimes late after midnight

And when I got to my bed
Under the staircase
I wondered till sunrise
Cramped with Victor Chang and two others

As to why we were so poor
In a place so rich

All the pretty young girls were taken
Like Joan Chen who lived upstairs
And moaned the whole god-damned night

But I was only a parcel boy
In South East Shanghai