nano space

when i stepped out of our office building after work today,
it was already dark outside,
i almost stumbled accross four little girls
playing in the gutter.

right above their heads
our office building's name
shining from a silver plate.
"nano space".

this situation, of course,
did not exactly ask for picture taking.
altough an important fact about india
could not have possibly been depicted better
than by those four dirty children
and their own, special headline.

because in this country
there often literally is
merely a nano inch of space
between first
and third world.

the four girls, however,
went about their play
lifting their heads just halfheartedly
to greet me with a broad grin.