ADVICE FOR A MOTHER
LOOKING FOR HER CHILD AFTER A DAY OF 'UNREST'
© Farouk Asvat
for the children of #Palestine & #Azania*
Mamma,
If your child is not
home
You will find her
At the police station
Mamma,
If he is not there
You will find her
At police headquarters
Mamma,
If she is not there
You will find him
At the local clinic
Mamma,
If he is not there
You will find her
At the hospital
Mamma,
If she is not there
You will find him
In exile
Mamma,
If he is not there
You will find her
At the mortuary
Mamma,
If she is not there
You will find him
In the cemetery
Mamma,
If he is not there
You will find
She is disappeared
Mamma,
If you cannot find
them
You will find them
In a mass grave
© farouk asvat
composed:
after seeing my first images of the first #intifada
on tv in amsterdam:
it reminded me of the similarity of the
landscape and running battles in cape town
between pupils and the police:
10.12.1987 [the netherlands];
25.04.1988 [germany];
(*azania (what revolutionaries called the future country) still under #apartheid
and strict censorship);
(#palestine during the first #intifaada).
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[] acknowledgements:
Advice For A Mother Looking For Her Child After A Day Of Unrest was previously published in:
Tribute (tribute magazine, p139, october 1990);
Descant (descant, toronto, canada, # 69, vol 21
(2), p7, summer 1990);
The
Wind Still Sings Sad Songs (piquant publications, p92, 2006);
https://faroukasvat-poems.blogspot.com/2012/05/advice-for-mother-looking-for-her-child.html (22.05.2012)
The Wind Still Sings Sad Songs (kindle, 2014);
The Wind Still Sings Sad Songs (amazon
paperback, p90, 2014).
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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 (literary
criticism)
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