What is the Date

Order the water boiled for tea!
Clay stove set afire again!
Pigs graze sewage streets!
Faceless hotel, familiar face
To calculate the date!

Infected dogs rampant run!
Naked childern on muddy feet!
Brilliant smiles without teeth!
Foreign world I can't believe!
American dreams easy to see!

Milkfat film on boiled tea
As if there's no time here!
It's ticking hasn't reached
our crumbling ancient village!
The tea's swirling brown steam!

The face gone, the room locked
per chance to meet again
some far off American city
that these children will never see!
I am left with nothing
To calculate the date!