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Gut it is will move us from the gutter... to the rebirth of real men.

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This wind you hear is the birth of memory
when the moment hatches in time's womb
there will be no art talk, the only poem
you will hear will be the spearpoint pivoted
in the punctured marrow of the villain; the
timeless native son dancing like crazy to
the retrieved rhythms of desire
fading
in-
to
memory.


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All things come to pass
When they do, if they do
All things come to their end
When they do, as they do....


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Blessed are the dehumanized
for they have nothing to lose
but their patience.


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The circle continues
time will always be
in spite of minutes that know no life.
Lives change in life
at times even rot
or be trampled underfoot
as the back of a slave
There are cycles in the circle
I may even moan my deadness
or mourn your death.


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Or should I just plead
like the blues singer
hit me in the eye
maybe then maybe then
I'll see better
because when I search the crevices of my voice
I do not want to say anything unreal
as the ancients say
when the clouds clear
we shall know the color of the sky.


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Deep in your cheeks
your specific laughter owns
all things south of the ghosts
we once were.


Keorapetse Kgositsile

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Keorapetse Kgositsile

Keorapetse Kgositsile

Born: September 19, 1938
Died: January 3, 2018 (aged 79)
Bio: Keorapetse William Kgositsile, also known as "Bra Willie", was a South African poet and political activist. An influential member of the African National Congress in the 1960s and 1970s, he was inaugurated as South Africa's National Poet Laureate in 2006.
Known for:
  1. This Way I Salute You (2004)
  2. Approaches To Poetry Writing (1994)
  3. The present is a dangerous place to live (1974)
  4. To the Bitter End (1995)
  5. If I could sing (2002)

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