BALLOON WALLAH: RAKSHAN RIZWAN
Rakhshan Rizwan was born in Lahore, Pakistan and then moved to Germany where she studied Literature and New Media. She completed her M.A in British, American and Postcolonial Studies from the University of Münster and is currently a PhD candidate at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.
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Skirted in the air,
helium-filled balloons,
colored outlines-
The happy heads
turn dark-
like bobble-headed ghosts
Singing on strings, stretching their heads
against a steel-scented wind-
Their owner looks up proudly-
at his shy, dark-faced children-
He has not sold a single one
since June,
Not a singlepenny to save
his soul
one day his
helium head
will
e x p l o d e,
in the hot wind.
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