FIETAS ( reprise )
© Farouk
Asvat
They kicked our lives out
And built expensive houses
But the Boers don't want to move in
They say the coolies bewitched the
place
Because there's an Arab
In a white dress
Who walks every night
Through the houses
But we jus' know otherwise
It's only the ghost
Of Imaam Bananas
©
farouk asvat
*
original composed: 1985 [Johannesburg, South Africa
under apartheid]
# english
translation by farouk asvat: 2007 [Johannesburg, South Africa under new apartheid].
[] Acknowledgements:
Fietas (reprise) was
previously published in:
A Celebration Of Flames (donker,
p15, 1987); *
Sesame 7 (Renoster Books,
Johannesburg, p3, Winter 1986); *
Bra Frooks … (piquant publications, p21, 2006);
*
A Celebration Of Flames (piquant publications, p14, 2007); #
www.faroukasvat-lingo.blogspot.com
(06.11.2012); * #
www.faroukasvat-poems.blogspot.com
(12.05.2015); * #
Bra Frooks … (kindle, 2014); *
Bra Frooks … (amazon paperback, p19, 2014); *
A Celebration Of Flames (kindle, 2014); #
A Celebration Of Flames (amazon paperback, p23, 2014). #
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[§] Books
by Farouk Asvat:
● Sadness In The House Of Love (novel)
● The Gathering Of The Storm (novel)
● I Dream In Long Sentences (poetry)
● The Wind Still Sings Sad
Songs (poetry)
● A Celebration Of Flames (poetry)
● The Time Of Our Lives (poetry)
● Bra Frooks … (poetry)*
● The Paanies Are Coming (short
stories)*
● In The
House Of Love (novel)*
● Weapons Of Words
(comparative literature &
literary criticism)
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WIETIE WHAT-WHAT:
FIETAS ( reprise )
© Farouk Asvat
Hulle het ons lewe uitgeskop
En expensive huise gebou
Maa' die boere wil nie intrek
Hulle sê die koelies het die plek getoor
Wan' daa's 'n Arab
In a wit rok
Wat elke aan'
Deur die huise loop
Maa' ons ken mos anners
Dis net die spook
Van Imam Piesaingkie
© farouk asvat
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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House Of Love by Farouk Asvat
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