{"id":3058,"date":"2026-10-26T21:50:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T21:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blockspaceballads.com\/?p=3058"},"modified":"2026-10-27T05:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T05:57:07","slug":"biller-shed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blockspaceballads.com\/?p=3058","title":{"rendered":"Biller Shed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/blockspaceballads.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Picture-27-1-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blockspaceballads.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Picture-27-1-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/blockspaceballads.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Picture-27-1-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/blockspaceballads.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Picture-27-1-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/blockspaceballads.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Picture-27-1-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/blockspaceballads.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Picture-27-1.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Rukudzo Onai<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The woman behind the till is so tall<br>If she stands up she might swallow the lights.<br>A garbageman leans into an impulse basket<br>To steal a sideway glance at the name on her badge<br>But her tortoise-shell Hallmark diva glasses<br>Looking up from the checkout monitor<br>Start him off the scoop with a random energy attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both her breasts, big as elephant ears<br>In the illegal structures of her OK Mart t-shirt,<br>Debate which twin saw the sun the first.<br>None of this helps matters for the man is very shy.<br>He looks hard for her name on the screen<br>While she slips into a customer\u2019s groceries<br>A <em>Watchtower<\/em> magazine about green days<br>Before Adam and Eve ate a poison Valentine<br>In the garden of ambrosial delights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bad days are following him<br>The way success podcasts follow new cheese.<br>He has spent the better part of the year<br>With one foot in the eviction truck.<br>He has burnt through his last social credit,<br>Crashing floors and begging for change.<br>He must want to send it all to the devil<br>And be an anonymous stillbirth under the sun<br>But starvation diets knows his address<br>More than the dead know angel choirs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In better harvests, he was a man to hold his floor<br>In the cash-and-carry rites of city passage.<br>These days harvest is garbage run on garbage run,                      Cartload on cartload of plastic refuse<br>Traded nightly for a lousy plate of rice<br>At the biller shed behind OK Mart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every day ends with a rough and rowdy queue<br>To exchange plastic garbage for rice.<br>A dead smell sits behind the supermarket,<br>Something of shadow relish, maybe,<br>For the lousy plate of plain and cold rice.<br>But taste means nothing to the garbagemen.<br>Battle scars from their biller shed queues<br>Are God\u2019s handwriting on Cain\u2019s forehead \u2013<br>Equal-parts preservation and bare life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our man of the garbage trolley<br>Was driven from the countryside<br>With eight million other villagers<br>To make way for oxygen farms last year.<br>There were few lootings \u2013<br>Obscene noises about drunken comrades<br>Who spit where the peasants eat.<br>But the politicians put paid to the matter<br>With water cannons and overnight abductions,<br>The usual return envelope, really.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Qatari oilmen were casually rolling caterpillars<br>To replace the villages with oxygen farms \u2013<br>Carbon credits to give back to the climate \u2013<br>When the lands minister at the tail end of <em>News Hour<\/em><br>Announced the sale of half Zimbabwe\u2019s land mass!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That green colony is newly home<br>To a special tree species called the mailflower.<br>You may have heard about mailflowers<br>Hoarding oxygen instead of giving it off<br>In the fashion of regular plants.<br>Thanks to the doomsday shrub,<br>Zimbabwe will be the last oxygen resort<br>For billionaire who\u2019s whos<br>When earth finally winds down<br>To inhospitable centigrades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The year was 2018.<br>The garbageman was dreaming on his feet \u2013<br>Green days in the village rain \u2013<br>From the overgrown privacy of the deserted<br>Parktown cottage he was crashing lately,<br>All along the purple jacaranda trees<br>Whose branches lock overhead 4th Ave \u2013<br>Green days before the demolitions<br>Drove the peasants into hungry Harare,<br>And life kept up with the damned and the despised<br>Between black jokes and fertilizer-distorted ganja.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was repenting to the beat of thunder,<br>For thunder claps are the church bells of heaven.<br>He was ready to leave in a ball of lightning<br>His lean and lonesome corner in the world.<br>He wanted to rest in heaven<br>Seeing as hell had finally worn him down.<br>But thunder only claps<br>When lightning has already missed you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No; he could never have foreseen<br>A woman umbrella-walking him<br>Home to his deserted cottage<br>In the illegal structures of her OK Mart t-shirt.<br>But, there, she came to him in the rain,<br>Greeted him like her own reclusive cousin,<br>And burned a let\u2019s-keep of the Harare skyline<br>Into his weather-beaten heart of a garbageman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A year has since passed.<br>All of 2019, he hasn\u2019t quite broken<br>The spell of bare life to spend a dollar<br>In her presence at the supermarket.<br>And yet he has never been without<br>Rain-blurred visions of tender time<br>Under her red-and-white OK Mart umbrella.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And now he makes a shy retreat from her till,<br>Unworthy of her Ini Edo glory.<br>He makes a show of taking a second look<br>At his shopping list of crumbled yellow paper<br>But he must walk back to rehearse<br>His long alibi for her number, really,<br>Before matters proceed out of turn<br>At the umbrella woman\u2019s checkout counter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He wants to look her up on Instagram<br>But how does he get around<br>The small matter of not knowing her name?<br>There is nothing for it but to ask the web chat.<br>He is all that spiked for this new opening<br>But it\u2019s just like holy-holy AI<br>To swear him off reading anything personal<br>Into a shop assistant\u2019s smile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A till operator is paid to be nice to everyone \u2013<br>The finicky chatbot puts it to him \u2013<br>Especially to lowlifes who see her as a refuge<br>For their want in life, hungry days<br>And loneliness in the city blah blah!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These days every chatbot<br>Really thinks it\u2019s Pope Francis, no?<br>One day, maybe, the prefects of virtue<br>Will even begin to suspect<br>What ambrosial breadcrumbs<br>The till operator fed him under the umbrella<br>With a smile that could only have been for him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He is sneaking back to her till<br>Between water and glassware shelves,<br>If he must only wash his heart<br>For visions of her Ini Edo glory.<br>But the dark and mooshy woman finds him out.<br>And her mothering smile,<br>Shining through uneven coffee teeth<br>And big eyes under her tortoise-shell glasses<br>Unscatters him back to the business at hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIs this all for you?\u201d she asks<br>As she feeds his groceries,<br>All of coarse salt and soya chunks,<br>Into the point-of-sale machine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYes! How is work today?<br>This place is really a dream.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cA dream?\u201d she is less convinced.<br>\u201cIf you mean it like a girl is trapped<br>Inside too many customers\u2019 dreams.<br>You know men who randomly throw names<br>From food shelves at a shop assistant.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every day, her queues are the longest.<br>Customers get gimmicky<br>To stretch their time at her counter<br>For she is very beautiful.<br>Wheelchasing stories with the left hand.<br>Business cards casually signed<br>On a random Benjamin with the right hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If this is her show, she is a tad removed<br>Like weeping angel looking down<br>The cornerstones of a God-forsaken city<br>Just to shake off the dust of her wings.<br>She tells on these narrow customers<br>To the urban peasant whose dirty sack,<br>At least, suggests someone different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For her part, a faux-girly-girl<br>Amy Winehouse tone gives indifferent,<br>Some kind of frozen attitude<br>To keep things of the heart<br>From going bad in a place like this.<br>But the peasant might be convinced<br>The woman is flexing pretty privilege at his expense.<br>He is that man who is convinced<br>People speak at him rather than speaking to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The woman\u2019s customers migrate to other tills,<br>Their silent treatment for a shop assistant<br>Who makes free with characters from the biller shed. Just as well, our gentleman of the garbage trolley<br>Wishes he had left his sack outside<br>But knows leaving it outside<br>In he reach of other plastic scavengers,<br>Would have certainly cost him<br>Tonight\u2019s ticket to the biller shed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Have you ever walked the night<br>Halfway-to-black on your last kombucha,<br>Only for someone to jump you<br>Like a bomb out of the blue with bloody intent?<br>You turn around with a hard shiver,<br>Seeing as too many lumberjacks are only happy<br>To mistake a head for a cabbage after-9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But you find nobody out here,<br>Only your mind fabulating on situations,<br>Which may even be a good thing,<br>If tomorrow wasn\u2019t such a long time,<br>And the death jolt hadn\u2019t already shaken you sober,<br>And your last dollar wasn\u2019t already lining<br>Some dirty bar safe at Parktown Shops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When the biller shed quota can\u2019t be met,<br>And sleep won\u2019t be gamed<br>Off a cup of fertilizer-distorted water,<br>The peasant sniffs black secrets<br>Of the streets for a primal spike<br>But only comes home to find his hunger<br>Doubled from adrenaline withdrawal.<br>Deflation, when you can no longer<br>Go lower for a cheap high<br>Grosses out the unnameable in all of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHmm, does that sound right?\u201d<br>The peasant protests convenience-shop reduction<br>Of our lady\u2019s divinity to food porn.<br>\u201cI guess that\u2019s why you got to<br>Beat them around with church magazines.<br>I couldn\u2019t help but notice.<br>You must be Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMy old man is a pastor,\u201d<br>The till operator says.<br>\u201cAt his age, memory is no longer<br>One of his stronger areas.<br>Both my parents haven\u2019t been well lately.<br>So now, the literature evangelism thing<br>Has fallen squarely into my hands.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWell, well, if it isn\u2019t the famous<br>Herbert Armstrong\u2019s <em>Plain Truth<\/em> magazine!<br>I had really mistaken it for <em>Watchtower<\/em>,\u201d<br>The peasant lights up with high-school nostalgia,<br>Looking at a copy on the till,<br>But immediately sours, as if on prompt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSay, that apartheid church is still<br>Teaching about colonial blessings in this country?\u201d<br>The undercover evangelist, though,<br>Charms him to patience<br>With a faux-girly-girl Brother Stalin salute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTruthfully, more like Brother Swaggart,\u201d<br>He politely declines trench cred.<br>\u201cI didn\u2019t go far with school<br>But I read enough church magazines<br>To be some kind of village preacher.\u201d<br>Back issues dumped by the truckload<br>Month after month until classroom libraries<br>Had to be arranged church by church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI was more <em>Rhapsody of Realities<\/em> myself,\u201d<br>Says the till operator, lighting up in turn<br>With the shine of green days by the river.<br><em>Plain Truth<\/em> littered every corner of her childhood<br>And never registered as a separate fact<br>The way camels in the sand never registered<br>For all that familiar writers of the Koran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her headmaster policed book donations.<br>Some halfway-to-decent Shona novelist,<br>He felt a tad unsure about church magazines<br>And all that jazz about the laws of success<br>Taking over Zimbabwean libraries.<br>At least that\u2019s how she had explained things<br>To her old man, the good village pastor,<br>Each time she brought back his book donations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The missionaries gave us<br>The Old Storytellers Department<br>To feel the roots of their writing system \u2013<br>Recalled the pastor without offense each time \u2013<br>They never felt we should forget our culture;<br>Only, that we should misremember in print.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Memory is a mountain<br>Without a path to ancestor caves<br>So we bomb with it with totem graffiti \u2013<br>That\u2019s how the good village pastor<br>Saw the likes of the headmaster-novelist,<br>Graffiti-bombers mapping grey on grey<br>A form of life that was no longer available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fate of totems is to be<br>Bound to city coordinates \u2013<br>Princess Mononoke shall herd<br>All her animals back to Iron Town,<br>Not as gods but as plastic avatars,<br>Copper bangles and missionary alphabets. \u2013<br>Even if the trees come back,<br>The forest is no longer his.<br>The great forest spirit is now dead \u2013<br>Memory&#8217;s eternal sunshine, lived on paper<br>As it disappears forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe till is for buying and leaving,\u201d<br>Says a bush lawyer from the trenches.<br>\u201cYou\u2019ll propose our girlfriends there!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDon\u2019t flirt, Baldy!\u201d<br>The till operator snaps back.<br>\u201cIf I sat on you once,<br>Do you think you would ever wake up again?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAt least one member won\u2019t sleep again.<br>You say I drive your mhene away<br>But that\u2019s just your cougar mouth, hehehe!\u201d<br>And now boxer-walks with a little dance,<br>Around our gentleman of the trolley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCome here, wife-snatcher!<br>Now you don\u2019t want to get into it, huh?<br>You see a wild bird perching on this till<br>And suppose she is for the likes of you<br>Church brothers who couldn\u2019t tell<br>Which direction men climb their women.<br>Leave her to Baroka; nobody gets hurt.<br>Don\u2019t say nobody warned you<br>About watching the pot that\u2019ll defeather you.<br>Every cuckoo has its day, my boy,\u201d<br>He says, adjusting yellow court papers<br>And letting others fly from his armpit<br>Onto the checkout counter for effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cChineke! You not only feel<br>Like a lawyer in your head;<br>You must also feel like Peter Edochie?\u201d<br>The till operator looks him up and down<br>And suddenly shouts into the supermarket:<br>\u201cSomebody come and take away<br>This rusty old pipe for me woh!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All this, of course, piles on<br>The feeling of slipping out of your shoes<br>For our church brother and garbageman.<br>Mellowing into her faux-girly-girl voice,<br>The umbrella woman stretches a hand up<br>To extend her seated height:<br>\u201cDon\u2019t mind him, Brother Swaggart!<br>You\u2019re looking at two meters of wife material.\u201d<br>\u201cJust not yours, rusty Baroka!\u201d<br>She snaps at the bush lawyer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe order, please!\u201d the old boy sours,<br>Scarcely holding his floor<br>In this new battle of wits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPwoda, pwoda,<br>Watch it, boy!\u201d the bush lawyer barks.<br>\u201cYou sneak in here<br>Smelling like a dead man<br>And now you order my wife around?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When he walks the rain,<br>Lifting the veil of the clouds<br>In the anonymity of the storm,<br>The man of the mountains<br>Is a farmer not a garbageman.<br>In the supermarket, though,<br>His grassy smile is vanishing<br>From the vacuum of his wishful bride\u2019s eyes<br>As she shouts for a colleague to void his transaction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Between his only dollar<br>And smoking-blue hunger,<br>Between the salt and the chunks<br>He may only choose but one item.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The woman behind the till is so tall<br \/>\nIf she stands up she might swallow the lights.<br \/>\nA garbageman leans into an impulse basket<br \/>\nTo steal a sideway glance at the name on her badge<br \/>\nBut her tortoise-shell Hallmark diva glasses&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment","category-poems"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Biller Shed | Blockspace<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blockspaceballads.com\/?p=3058\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Biller Shed | Blockspace\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The woman behind the till is so tall If she stands up she might swallow the lights. 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