SEWERS AND ORCHIDS
© Farouk Asvat
Sea Point smells of barbecue
And rotting snoek;
The decrepit Cape Flats
Smells like an open sewer;
And you,
Orchid and bougainvillaea
Of Neptune's forsaken land,
Have nothing to offer me
But estee lauder and cordon bleu:
You surely belong to fashion magazines
And perfumed gardens -
Not to these rebellions in the street
© farouk asvat
composed: 10.04.1984 [Cape Town, South
Africa under apartheid]
[] Acknowledgements:
Sewers And
Orchids was previously
published in:
The Wind Still Sings Sad
Songs (piquant publications, p84, 2006);
www.faroukasvat-poems.blogspot.com
(25.02.2014);
The Wind Still Sings Sad
Songs (kindle, 2014);
The Wind Still Sings Sad
Songs (amazon paperback, p82,
2014).
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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)
● Bra Frooks … (poetry)*
● The Paanies Are Coming
(short stories)*
● In The
House Of Love (novel)*
● Weapons Of Words
(comparative literature & literary criticism)
¨ all my books are now available on amazon: in paperback & kindle
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