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Three In Bed
SayAfrica! ― The man is joblessThe woman is joylessThe baby is faultlessHe wants to be a writerShe is wont to be a fretterBaby plays like all otherHis life is hardShe makes it badBaby loves 'em bothHe reads his booksShe works her looksBaby munch his foodHe says... (more)
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Posted on Feb 7th, 2012
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Stars in the Sky
SayAfrica! ― Holiness! How many stars are in the sky?One, two, three, those ones...millions up highIt seems for every man, a star ( woman two)Alive, non-alive, unborn; the rich and the wretched tooThat large one winking languidly at me is me And those small ones... (more)
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Posted on Feb 2nd, 2012
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Make merry, be happy
SayAfrica! ― Grab a beer Spread the cheerForget the tearsDrown your fearsLife is not last yearNot even next yearIt’s every whiz of breath Every beat of heartLike deathThat can’t be postponedDelayedReversedRepeatedSo is lifeMake merry, be happy (more)
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Posted on Dec 23rd, 2011
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Introduction through Sex
SayAfrica! ― Or what was it?Dick, Dick, oh DickPlease don’t do thatYou had promisedFanny, you don’t mean …Please, no, pleaseFanny, just let meDick, please do it fast(That way I got to know My neighbors next floorForgotten the inn’s nameFanny and Dick,... (more)
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Posted on Nov 13th, 2011
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A prayer to nobody
SayAfrica! ― I just wish tomorrow could be differentAnything better, morbid, even devastatingThan these vapid, insipid, days of numbnessOf dud promise, pernicious, sheet of samenessAnything but mourning pans for breakfastSomething but thoughts of halcyon pastThat... (more)
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Posted on Oct 31st, 2011
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Hee and Sh-ee
SayAfrica! ― He said I want She claimed I won'tHe groped for itShe dropped for itSilent rainbowsShe said THANK YOU! (more)
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Posted on Oct 15th, 2011
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I choose my death!
SayAfrica! ― I missed the good life, Not by a whiskerNever the good death,Not even by a whitA lazy meal of beefA slew of laced beerAnd no few puffsI laze in my bed Drizzling in the meadowA bird sings her sizzleTo a rainbow in the mountAnd home descends my... (more)
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Posted on Jun 8th, 2011
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Of a lady in England
SayAfrica! ― Of a lady in EnglandOh Victoria Pryce!What a price to payAs land a victory As be her victor?For money and loveWorld around movesAint have the formerLots of the latterBetter it were bothWas me an alchemistTo... (more)
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Posted on Mar 19th, 2011
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I remember when I loved
SayAfrica! ― when eyes could in the darkest of night see her angelic self in the brightest of daywhen we would to and fro unwilling to part each other’s partywhen her lyre strokes lulled me asleep in the shadow of her... (more)
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Posted on Feb 14th, 2011
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Memories of an African Childhood: Facing the Knife
SayAfrica! ― The year is 1992. I am in class six, very bright if the position at the end of every term is anything to go by. But then our school was not renowned for academics, so I didn’t know how I would have fared in a... (more)
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Posted on Dec 8th, 2010
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Memories of an African Childhood: Adults Behaving Badly!
SayAfrica! ― My mom enrolled for Adult Education classes in the 80s, I can’t remember when exactly but I remember seeing her exercise books loitering in the house. She was not an enthusiastic learner and she dropped... (more)
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Posted on Dec 6th, 2010
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Memories of an African Childhood: Visits and Visitors
SayAfrica! ― December of 1990 derived me of my elder brother. Not through death but to an alienating rite of passage: initiation to adulthood. Our twins were grown and healthy, my mom still fussing about them. I was grown... (more)
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Posted on Dec 4th, 2010
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Memories of an African Childhood: Twins are added to the Family!
SayAfrica! ― The year is 1990. I am old enough to record dates.The December festivities are over. We report to school, I am late but it is only the first week. I am a lot disoriented after the long holiday. Christmas passed,... (more)
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Posted on Nov 30th, 2010
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Memories of an African Childhood: the Passing out Parade
SayAfrica! ― A few days will pass again before another ceremony, actually the days it takes to brew some more beer. I count four days and on the fourth night, the singing in the hovel failed to reach us at 9 p.m. as usual... (more)
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Posted on Nov 26th, 2010
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Memories of an African Childhood: Days before Christmas
SayAfrica! ― We are deep into December holidays. Schooling has been forgotten as a very distant memory, my exercise books are lost, we have used some pages to light fire, and some to smoke cigars of ash. I last bathed that... (more)
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Posted on Nov 24th, 2010
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