Carpet Street

Beware innocent tourist
cross it off from your list
Machine carpets and rags
Silverware with doctored tags
next to the nicest monuments
with virtual Hamam torrents,
oddly restored mosques and vaults
with machined stones in concrete molds.
Ghost Ibrahim, he sounds alarm
because his heritage was badly harmed
when first Nobel, then Tsar then USSR
piece by piece smashed the wonderful jar.

 F Sz 3 Nov 2007 Baku