© Farouk Asvat
(the 7 o' clock bus to Lenz)
Blue sky blue smoke and bluegums
In the
evening hazeAs the landscape passes
In fleeting window frames:
Tired and languid.
Inside, in
the overcrowded space
Dagga smoke
and cigarette haze mix with the booze,And Pakree here at the back shouts:
• "Eh, Devlin, what you doing
with that little girl?
Your chando - sari wife waiting for you,give you big hiding."
• 'Heit, howzit?!'
• "Ah smooth basin, one way."
• 'Hey Bro', send the beer;
we know you won by the horses again.'
• "Strues god ninyani kapella tickey-for-free;
ai, but the bus is full, Jack."
• 'The driver is blind;
he won't hear you.'
• "Prrrt. Prrrt.
Mr Dinath, can you come drive this bus for us?"
• 'Sorry, the boss is enjoying biryani.'
©
farouk asvat
translated into english by farouk asvat: 2006 [Johannesburg,
South Africa under new apartheid]
[] Acknowledgements:
Las’ Bus! was previously
published in:
The Time Of Our Lives (piquant publications, p20, 2007).
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[]
WIETIE WHAT-WHAT
LAS' BUS
© Farouk Asvat
© Farouk Asvat
(the
7 o' clock bus to Lenz)
Blue sky blue smoke and bluegums
In the
evening hazeAs the landscape passes
In fleeting window frames:
Tired and languid.
Inside, in the overcrowded space,
Dagga smoke and cigarette haze mix with the booze:
And Pakree here at the back shouts:
• "Eh Devlin, what you doing with that pôrie?
Your chando-sarrie wife waiting for you,
give you big hiding."
• "Heit, hoezit?!"
• 'Ah smooth basin, one way.'
• "Hey Majieta, stuur die bier;
Ons ken jy't weer gewen byrie pêrre."
• "Strues god ninyani kapella tickey basella,
Ai, maa' die bus is vol Jack."
• 'Die driver is blind.
Hy sal djou nie hoor.'
•"Prrrt. Prrrt.
Mr Dinath, can you come drive this bus for us?"
• 'Sorry, the boss is chowing biryani.'
©
farouk asvat
original composed: 08.12.1980 [Johannesburg under apartheid,
South Africa]
[the
day john lennon was assasinated]
[] Acknowledgements:
Las’ Bus was previously
published in:
The Time Of Our Lives (black thoughts
publications, p72, 1982);
Botsotso 12
(Botsotso, Johannesburg, p59, 2002);Bra Frooks … (piquant publications, p15, 2006).
© farouk asvat
original composed: 1980 [Johannesburg under apartheid, South
Africa]
Bra Frooks is ...
[] nes 'n skollie
[] 'n egte skollie
[] 'n tsotsi
[] a real scamp
[] streetwise
[] the jokerman
Bra Frooks ...
[]
praat soos 'n skollie[] wietie soos 'n joster
[] wietie what-what
[] tunes like a durbanite
[] speaks like an englishman
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