Letter To South Africa: Poets Calling The State To Order

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Letter to South Africa: Poets Calling the State to Order

Willem Anker

Large Paperback

 

Venting their frustration
Howling in anguish
Declaring their love
Confessing their loyalty
Claiming their rights
Screaming in anger
Offering their devotion

"South Africa.
I have nothing left to give to you apart from the car guard's R5 in my back pocket, on the 17th of September in the year or our Lord, soccer, sex workers and Jackie Selebi, 2010"

"Suid-Afrika, jou kerke is aerobics arenas en jou erfenis is worse, is 'n gebraai in agterplase, en 'n gevreet, jy is obees van kulturele honger."

"Sorry South Africa yes I know I'm all bark too scared to bite it's my fear of Aids that unpatriotically keeps me out of your jails and brothels."

"Suid-Afrika, wat het geword van jou technicolour rainbow engelvlerke?"

"South Africa, hey, I'm talking to you - it's like praying, like mourning, like whimpering too."

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