A Housewife In Alexandria

A housewife in Alexandria. The woman in Alexandria Egypt in her black chador which mercifully hides a thin, body, lines up outside a bakery she has walked six miles to buy bread for the day. Her body could have fitted a Dior’s creation snugly but as it is she has to haste home and feed her children. She has been to the fruit market too where rib cage showing mules with open sores wait, their starvation have lasted so long that they are no longer hungry but eat when fed. A rich woman, who has never felt the pang of hunger, tells mule drivers off for not taking care of their beasts and dispenses salve on animals’ sores. The woman, with a model’s body, is poor and blind to this, empathy with animals are for the wealthy, those with time to care.