POSSIBILITIES
FOR A MAN HUNTED BY SBs
© Farouk Asvat
There's one of two possibilities
Either
they find you or they don't
If
they don't it's ok
But
if they find you
There's
one of two possibilities
Either
they let you go or they ban you
If
they let you go it's ok
But
if they ban you
There's
one of two possibilities
Either
you break your ban or you don't
If
you don't it's ok
But
if you break your ban
There's
one of two possibilities
Either
they find out or they don't
If
they don't it's ok
But if they find out
There's
one of two possibilities
Either
they find you guilty or notguilty
If
they find you notguilty it's ok
But
if they find you guilty
There's
one of two possibilities
Either
they suspend your sentence or they jail you
If
they suspend your sentence it's ok
But
if they jail you
There's
one of two possibilities
Either
they release you
Or
you fall from the tenth floor
© farouk asvat
+ #french #translation + #turkish #translation
composed:
04.09.1973 [johannesburg, south africa under apartheid]
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* SBs: Security Branch, referring to the South African Security Police under the South African apartheid regime,
operating like the Nazi SS, KGB, Stasi, CIA/FBI and Shin Bet/Mossad.
"Asvat's poem (Possibilities for a Man Hunted by SBs) is a clear and simple statement
of the true state of affairs ... reducible to mathematical terms."
• Mbulelo Mzamane, Perspectives On South African English Literature
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[] acknowledgements:
Possibilities For A Man Hunted
By SBs: was previously
published in:
The
Time Of Our Lives (black thoughts publications, p19, 1982);
Praxis #4-6 (UCLA, Los Angeles,
USA, p27, 1978);
Staffrider 2(3) (Ravan,
Johannesburg, p31, July/August 1979);
Gar 34 (University of Texas, USA, p24,
April 1980);
Index on Censorship 9(3) (London, UK, p27,
June 1980);
International Portland Review (Portland, USA,
p331, 1980);
Reconstruction, ed M Mutloase (Ravan, p42,
1981);
Western Areas Table Tennis Association (backcover, 1981);
Voices from Within, ed M Chapman (donker, p143,
1982);
Sunday Times extra (Durban, p6, 13.02.1983);
South Africa, The Privileged and the Dispossessed 12, ed F Schöning
(Paderborn, Germany, p370, 1985);
Afrique du Sud (Demain le Feu, Les Temps
Modernes, Juin-Juillet-Aout 480-481, p183, 1986):
(De Deux Choses L’Une: French
translation by Jacques Alvarez-Pereyre);
The Paperback of South African English Poetry, ed M Chapman
(donker, p240, 1986);
The Race Today Review 17(1) (London, UK, p30,
Feb 1986);
New Inscapes, ed R Malan (Oxford University
Press, p230, 1986);
SudAfrika-Stipediensfonds 35 (SASF, Tubingen,
Germany, p13, December 1987);
Dokumente Texte und Tendenzen VIII Reader (Evangelische Akademie,
Germany, p34, 1987);
A Celebration of Flames (Heller Fund, UC
Berkeley, USA, p9, 1988);
Perspectives 5: South Africa, ed K Sondheim [text
+ cassette recording]:
(Ernst Klett Verlag,
Stuttgart, Germany, p31, 1988);
Ourselves in Southern Africa: an anthology of southern
african writing,
ed R Malan (Macmillan,
London, UK, p177, 1988);
Ten Years of Staffrider 7(3&4), ed AW Oliphant
& I Vladislavic (Staffrider, Ravan, p218, 1988);
Illuminations 8 (Rathasker Press, Charleston,
S Carolina, USA, p10, 1989);
The
Berkeley Poetry Review (UC Berkeley,
California, USA, #23/24, p128, 1990);
New Inscapes supplement, ed R Malan (Oxford University
Press, p230, 1991);
A New University Anthology of English Poetry, ed MC Anderson,
Kossick, Perreira
(Oxford University Press,
p270, 1993);
The Lonely Art: an anthology of poems, ed AG Ullyat (Academica,
Pretoria, p2, 1993);
Dramatisation by: Performing Arts Council of the
Transvaal (June 1995 & Dec 1995);
Poetry 2000 (Hodder &
Stoughton, p209, 1996);
Worldscapes, ed R Malan (Oxford
University Press, p230, 1997);
The Living Tradition, ed S Joubert (Maskew Miller,
p`, 2006);
Voices From All Over ed R Kozain (Oxford
University Press, p128, 2007);
The Jo'burg
Book: A
Guide to the City's History, People and Places, ed Nechama Brodie (PanMacmillan, p91,
2008);
Introduction to Law and Legal Skills, ed Tracy Humby, et al, (Oxford University
Press, p229, 2012);
Inleiding Tot Die Reg En Regsvaardighede in
Suid-Afrika, ed Tracy
Humby, et al,
(Oxford University Press, p247-248, 2012).
SB’lerin İzlediği Bir Adam İçin İhtimaller: trans by İlyas Tunç: Contemporary South African Poetry Anthology,
Çağdaş
Güney Afrïka Şïrï Antolojïsï (Bencekitap Publishing, Istanbul, p235, 2013);
The
Time Of Our Lives (piquant publications, p10, 2007);
The Time Of Our Lives (kindle, 2014);
The Time Of Our Lives (amazon paperback, p10, 2014).
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¨ AUDIOVISUAL
● Farouk Asvat in Johannesburg in the waning
days of apartheid (video):
farouk asvat
interviewed & reciting:
• Possibilities
For A Man Hunted By SBs
• And
The Night
(© ds black
1992, uploaded 23 april 2016).
● Possibilities For A Man Hunted By SBs
(video):
farouk asvat
reciting:
• Possibilities
For A Man Hunted By SBs
(© charles braam, rotterdam, 1988).
● A Morte De Steve Biko
(video):
• The
Death Of Steve Biko translated into
Portuguese and put to music.
[* poem recorded and sold by Anibal Werneck de Freitas
without
permission, in contravention of copyright; and without payment.
● Poetry of the People
(video):
farouk asvat
interviewed & reciting:
• It Is The Season Of Dying
(ed. Diana Simson, Sached, Cape Town, March 1987).
● South African Black Poets
(video):
farouk asvat
interviewed & reciting poems;
(ed. Bridget Thompson,
Sached, 1987).
● German
Studio recording: (audio):
farouk asvat
reciting:
• Possibilities For A Man Hunted By SBs
• The Death Of Steve
Biko
• Massacre At
Sharpeville
(Perspectives 5: South Africa, ed Kurt
Sontheim, teacher's text + cassette recording # 8,
Ernst Klett Verlag, Stuttgart,
Germany, 1988).
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[§] Books by Farouk Asvat:
● Sadness In The House Of Love (novel)
● The Gathering Of The Storm (novel)
● I Dream In Long Sentences
(poetry)
● The Wind Still Sings Sad Songs (poetry)
● A Celebration Of Flames
(poetry)
● The Time Of Our Lives
(poetry)
● This Masquerade (short
stories)
● Bra Frooks … (poetry)*
● The Paanies Are Coming
(short stories)*
● In The
House Of Love (novel)*
● Weapons Of Words (comparative
literature & literary criticism)
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DE
DEUX CHOSES L’ UNE
ou
ce qu’un homme
peut faire lorsqu’il est
pourchassé par la
police politique
French translation by ©
Jacques Alvarez-Pereyre
De deux choses
l’une,
Ou ils vous
trouvent, ou ils ne vous trouvent pas.
S’ils ne vous
trouvent pas, parfait,
Mais s’ils vous
trouvent
De deux choses
l’une,
Ou ils vous
relâchent, ou ils vous assignent à résidence.
S’ils vous
relâchent, aucun problème,
Mais s’ils vous
assignent à résidence
De deux choses
l’une :
Ou vous passez
outre, ou vous respectez l’assignation.
Si vous la
respectez, aucun problème,
Mais si vous ne
la respectez pas,
De deux choses
l’une :
Ils vous trouvent
ou ils ne vous trouvent pas.
Dans ce cas, pas
de problème,
Mais s’ils vous
trouvent
De deux choses
l’une :
Ils vous
déclarent coupable, ou alors vous vous en tirez.
Si tel est le
cas, parfait,
Mais s’ils vous
déclarent coupable,
De deux choses
l’une :
Ou vous
bénéficiez d’un sursis, ou ils vous emprisonnent.
Si vous
bénéficiez d’un sursis, parfait !
Mais s’ils vous
emprisonnent, de deux choses l’une :
Ou ils vous
remettent en liberté
- ou vous tombez
du dixième étage.
published in Afrique du Sud:
(Les Temps Modernes, Demain le Feu, Juin
Juillet Août, p183, 1986).
French translation by kind permission of © Jacques Alvarez-Pereyre
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SB’lerin İzlediği Bir
Adam İçin İhtimaller
Turkish translation by © İlyas Tunç
İki ihtimalden biri
Ya bulurlar sizi ya bulamazlar
Bulamazlarsa tamam
Ama bulurlarsa
İki ihtimalden biri
Ya aldırmazlar ya yasak koyarlar
Aldırmazlarsa tamam
Ama yasak koyarlarsa
İki ihtimalden biri
Ya kırarsınız yasağı ya kırmazsınız
Kırmazsanız tamam
Ama kırarsanız
İki ihtimalden biri
Ya öğrenirler bunu ya öğrenemezler
Öğrenemezlerse tamam
Ama öğrenirlerse
İki ihtimalden biri
Ya suçlu bulunursunuz ya suçsuz
Suçsuz bulunursanız tamam
Ama suçlu bulunursanız
İki ihtimalden biri
Ya
ertelerler cezanızı ya tutuklarlar
Ertelerlerse
tamam
Ama
tutuklarlarsa
İki
ihtimalden biri
Ya
salıverirler sizi
Ya da düşersiniz onuncu kattan
Turkish
translation by kind permission of © İlyas Tunç
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