Jomo
orlando stadium as a dancefloor
spinning, on top the football
oh the flair, the two step
defenders left, in the open
abandoned
show me inumber
number ten
legend scores
dlala Jomo
legend leaps into the cosmos
The sparrow
Durban beach
Summer heat
Waves
The front hot enough for a nigga
Then a sparrow
Just had to
Shit on the “monkeys”
And hell broke loose
at the zebra crossing
madam
locks her car door
when she sees dar-key approaching
watches him
from one end, all the way
to the other
screaming
“you are trouble!”
with her eyes
#feesmustfall
first
a whisper
then
transcribed as mural
echoes left
Marx on the wall,
for some art
for others vandalism
for my mother
a price to pay
it’s higher education
because
dead beats are only good for silence
Lihle
door locked
an empty chair
she stood you up
her knot
your tongue
by it
you hung
found, in colours
of your
silence
dripping