Category: Poems
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Electronic Ladyland
@ONAI: I don’t keep you awake; I keep you alive. To sleep and to dream, that’s your one last drive. We both know sleeping is way out of your means So you have become dreammates with the memes...
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Biller Shed
The woman behind the till is so tall If she stands up she might swallow the lights. A garbageman leans into an impulse basket To steal a sideway glance at the name on her badge But her tortoise-shell Hallmark diva glasses...
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Toys in the Rain
Adam and Eve bit their Apple before Steve. Man gave names to all the animals But left totems in the garden To spin toy stories for a rainy day. Something is missing, Said he of rib-shaped ache...
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Kill Claudio
witches will piss on your grave for you are vile your mangy-dog skull will roll in its own slime as you kneel in lead shower too late for paradise...
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I Heard the Bank Was Painted Last Year
Famished forests smoke and howl in the broken circuit of earth, water and fire downstream footprints bloodied in black by vulture talons that mine out of turn I sweep burnt forests for the path least likely...
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Seven Shirts Clothesline
In the turf wars of township titans, Gold is separated from lightning ash. Chitungwiza sneezes; Berlin takes a jab. A king bites dust, the bishop sleeps in his bed. Lords of misrule throw streets off the scent...
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Goodbye, Terror
Garissa University attack (Photo Credit: IB Times) What is a city without a sentinel?Criminal paradise.What is freedom without fraternity?Inflated self-image.What is man without love?Beast of instinct.What is life without purpose?Chronology of destruction. What is religion without truth?Tyranny of hate.What is fervour without knowledge?Suicidal devastation.What is the world without Christ?Inhabitable inferno.What is history without final judgement?Triumph…
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