HAPPY!ness

HAPPY!ness
© Farouk Asvat

     "Happy Christmas, Anna."

'Hêppy Xmas, Mêrram

 (and you too
  my sweet husband
  living in bachelors' quarters
  and hêppiness too
  my children
  staying with the mother
  of their mother
  on the farm)
 Anything else, Mastah?'

© farouk asvat

original composed: 1985 [Johannesburg, South Africa under apartheid]

[] Acknowledgements:

Happy!ness / Hêppy!ness was previously published in:

     A Celebration Of Flames (donker, p19, 1987);

     My Drum: southern african poetry for young people
          ed B Meyerowitz, J Copans, T Welch
          (Hippogriff / Abecedarius, Johannesburg, p21, 1988);
     G'luk: Dutch translation by Irene Scheltes (1989);
     Broken Strings: the politics of poetry in south africa
          ed S Finn, R Gray (Maskew Miller Longman, Cape Town, p128`, 1992);
     A Celebration Of Flames (piquant publications, p19, 2007);
     www.faroukasvat-lingo.blogspot.com (13.11.2012);
     www.faroukasvat-poems.blogspot.com (19.05.2015);
     A Celebration Of Flames (kindle, 2014);
     A Celebration Of Flames (amazon paperback, p21, 2014).

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Reproduction of this work without permission, except for scholarly & nonprofit purposes,

is liable to a payment of 10, 000 ren men bi or US$ 1,500.

farouk asvat can be contacted at: farouk.asvat@gmail.com

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G'LUK!

     Dutch translation by © Irene Scheltes

     "Gelukkig Kerstfeest, Anna."

'G'lukkige Kerst, M'vrouw

(en jij ook
 m'n lieve man
 in de vrijgezellenwijk
 en g'luk ook voor jullie
 m'n kinderen
 die bij de moeder
 van hun moeder zijn)
 Nog iets anders, Meest'r?'

     Dutch translation by kind permission of © Irene Scheltes

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