Candolim Blues

 -Brian Mendonca

Chicken a la Kiev


The streets are empty
The season's shut down
A sideboat of brandy
Chicken a la Kiev
Jazz Cafe belts out Bollywood tunes
A live band, a packed house
while Adelaide slumbers quietly.
Chivas Regal and Chivas Regal
Dwayne loses his bearings
A fizzle, a drizzle
Couples pirouette on the path.
'Fulsome Prison Blues' on Spotify
It's vintage Candolim.
Its nirvana near by
For locals it's the food carts.
Past the moonlit fields
We climb into Pilerne
The croaking of frogs
peels the soul of night.

(Cashew Tree restaurant
Candolim
Sunday, 20 July 2022)

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