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| Empty bottles of rum. |
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| Lepo thali |
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| Viva Goa bar and restaurant |
- Brian Mendonca
Empty bottles of rum
Like skulls on a shelf
Debate the meaning of life
while I savour my Lepo thali.
One gent hollers loudly
making for the door
The other rotund and beaming
nurses his whiskey.
'Ghor bantta'; 'Kuwait halolo'
animate the conversation
Blue-collared workers
arrange chairs at a table.
Villagers lounge
in the placid afternoon
On the road to Raia
'RICE PLATE AVAILABLE'.
(Viva Bar and Restaurant
Raia road
12 March 2026)
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Pix by Brian Mendonca.
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