ANIMALS IN
THE WILD
© Farouk Asvat
Mandela
didn't even give you a mangy dog.
He got the
sturdy red elephant from Germany
And his
comrades took the sleek lion of Africa,
While the
old crocodile has gone to sleep
In the
wilderness
Lying down
with the tiger an' all,
And the
wily de Klerk
Has kept
the armoured hippos
And the
mechanised elephants
And the
fiery red falcons
Under the
stewardship
Of his
little poodles
And you and
me, my sister,
We do what
we always do:
Pick up the
doggy doo
© farouk asvat
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composed: 06.06.1992 [Johannesburg, South Africa under apartheid].
[] Acknowledgements:
Animals In The Wild was previously published in:
The Wind Still Sings Sad
Songs (piquant publications, p100, 2006);
www.faroukasvat-poems.blogspot.com
(29.04.2014);
The Wind Still Sings Sad
Songs (kindle, 2014);
The Wind Still Sings Sad
Songs (amazon paperback,
p98, 2014).
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archive: 29 april 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)
● 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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