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ANOMA RAJAKARUNA, Buddhini Ramanayaka, Fire Churning from Within, FTZ Girls, PANNAAMATHTHUK KAVIRAAYAR, poems, Poetry, S Sivasegaram, To My Son His Inheritance, Wickramasena Jayasekera
ANOMA RAJAKARUNA
FTZ Girls
Factories wherever you go
Girls wherever you look
Machines and equipment
For buttons and collars
Vacancies galore but no vacations
Sustaining the nation’s economy on twelve hour shifts
Demand and supply causing headaches and vomit
The Board meets, the girls fall ill
The chairman lives abroad, the girls in cardboard shelters
Standing in queues for private buses as the Intercoolers pass
So the foreign exchange comes
From the UN and the UK and Japan
For the work through days and nights
In Katunayaka, Biyagama, Koggala
The Quota Target Shipment is achieved
By independent healthy voluntary labour
Or perhaps not
World famous brands produced by girls also branded
Girls – females – youngsters – sluts
Our girls
Translated by Buddhini Ramanayaka
