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Words Against the Clouds by Breyten Breytenbach | Poems Rethabile Likes

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Words Against the Clouds by Breyten Breytenbach | Poems Rethabile Likes Words Against the Clouds by Breyten Breytenbach —‘shoe’ ‘desert rose’ ‘mud’— (luck wanted that I could today pick up a few words for you to be able to describe that one doesn’t only walk and think about nothing on the ground, but also about words in their meaning be seen, between toilet rolls, images, fossilised fish (don’t step on the wrong words! ‘laying the terror of mines,’ you once said ‘is in the delayed action; plant your bomb and one day, much later, someone who you don’t know is blown sky high’...
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Dig by Vonani Bila | Poems Rethabile Likes

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Dig by Vonani Bila | Poems Rethabile Likes Dig by Vonani Bila Do not dig your own grave, The dark clouds shall soon clear. A man never sleeps Where he shits. Grab this fragile heart, Wrap it in a fresh-pack. Squeeze love’s sweetest juice In silence. Dig harder & deeper For you refuse to dream higher & louder. The halitosis hits you in the nose And you stand on the cusp of a cataclysm. Please do not dig too deep, Chongo, Do not even use sharp hoes & picks. Just dig deep enough To cover your feet. Dig, but love is a deep hole ...
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America Is a Gun by Brian Bilston | Poems Rethabile Likes

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America Is a Gun by Brian Bilston | Poems Rethabile Likes America Is a Gun by Brian Bilston England is a cup of tea. France, a wheel of ripened brie. Greece, a short, squat olive tree. America is a gun. Brazil is football on the sand. Argentina, Maradona’s hand. Germany, an oompah band. America is a gun. Holland is a wooden shoe. Hungary, a goulash stew. Australia, a kangaroo. America is a gun. Japan is a thermal spring. Scotland is a highland fling. Oh, better to be anything than America as a gun. ...
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