I
REMEMBER
© Farouk Asvat
I remember
your
fall from the sky-
blue
building of police headquarters
And
I remember too
the
speeding policevan
braking
to a halt
and
the cop carrying the cat
off
the street
to
safety
© farouk asvat
composed: `17.04.1973 [johannesburg, south africa under apartheid]
● This poem
refers to an event when a political prisoner
was hung outside a
window on the 10th floor of John Vorster,
as a threat and means
of torture,
and let fall
from the 10th floor to his death.
Strangely, I woke
up very early that morning
and from the roof of the building I was staying in
I witnessed the
cop carrying the cat off the street,
- at the very moment
he was killed.
[] acknowledgements:
I Remember was previously published in:
The
Time Of Our Lives (black thoughts publications, p17, 1982);
vuka (crescent
publications, durban, p16, 1981);
The
Time Of Our Lives (piquant publications, p32, 2007);
The Time Of Our Lives (kindle, 2014);
The Time Of Our Lives (amazon paperback, p32, 2014).
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● Sadness In The House Of Love (novel)
● The Gathering Of The Storm (novel)
● I Dream In Long Sentences
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● 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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