Elaine Feinstein
Gypsies
‘Those black eyed children begging in Bucharest
are all pickpockets,’ smiled our exquisite hostess,
who had set a table for us with fresh cucumber,
and sliced tomatoes. ‘From the country,’ she explained
the delicacy, rare in present-day Romania.
Crossing the gaunt and treeless plain near Craiova,
We noticed houses painted like caravans,
With curving roofs and colours quaintly Asian.
Our driver said they were owned by rich Gypsies,
‘They go to East Germany and steal Mercedes.’
‘You know, Gypsies are hated over there,’
I mused to my London newsagent, looking at
a headline about stowaways caught in Dover.
But he, with his sad Pakistani eyes, replied,
‘Why are they so hated? They must be bad.’
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