© Farouk Asvat
My brother
From another mother(And another father),
Last of last night
I told my mother's mother
That next of next week
My mother's daughter's son
The one after the one after this one
Wants to visit his father's father
So I told him
He will have to cross the crossroads
Before the forking of the forking paths
That is over the hill
That is over that hill
That is just over that other hill
Understand?
©
farouk asvat
composed 1995 [Johannesburg, South Africa under new
apartheid]
[] Acknowledgements:
The Poem Of Playful Words was previously published in:
The Wind Still Sings Sad Songs (piquant publications, p55,
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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