streetwise: WAITING FOR MOHAMED ALI

WAITING FOR MOHAMED ALI
© Farouk Asvat

They did not gather for God

But for Mohamed Ali,
But it was the same thing,
It was like waiting for Godot

The excited crowd

Closed in on the mosque
Only to be technically knocked out
By his nonappearance

For Ali, like God,

Did not come
He was on a magic carpet ride
With the merchants of the realm

composed 1995 [Johannesburg, South Africa under new apartheid]

[] Acknowledgements:

Waiting For Mohamed Ali was previously published in:

The Wind Still Sings Sad Songs (piquant publications, p66, 2006). *

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[] WIETIE WHAT-WHAT

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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