Auckland

Auckland
your streets
are cold.

Auckland
multiracial
city of the world.
Beneath
your respectability.
A price
has been paid.
There is
no housing crisis.
Unemployment
is not working.
Black
is not white.

Hungry people
eat out of your
rubbish bins openly.
Supposed sedated
mental health consumers
roam your streets
lost and unloved.
A generation
of lost street people
are no longer
invisible.
Elderly beggars
leave their stench
of poverty and injustice.

A price
has been paid.
Auckland
your streets
are cold.