BOSS!
© Farouk Asvat
Boss! You got the car,
And you got the money,
Boss!
And I, I got the
fok'all.
S'trues God! my Boss,
We are not the
Mandelas,
We only want a few
cents
To buy the bread, my
King,
'Cause my stomach he
cries.
Ag please, Boss!
I wannabe jus' like
the Mandelas:
A blood red Mercedes
A pure white mansion
An' Power!
Georgio Armani!
Is ours!
©
farouk asvat
* original
composed: 12.06.1990
[johannesburg, south africa, under #apartheid ].
# english
translation by farouk asvat: 2006 [johannesburg, south africa, under new
#apartheid ].
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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)*
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Paanies Are Coming (short stories)*
● In The House Of Love
(novel)*
● Weapons Of
Words
(literary criticism)
● all my paperback
& kindle editions
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[] WIETIE WHAT-WHAT:
BOZA!
© Farouk Asvat
Boza! Jy het die kar
En jy het die sjhêld, Boza!
En ek, ek het die fok'all.
S'trues god! Boza,
Ons is nie die Mandelas
Ons soek net 'n paar cents
Om die brood te koop my Koning
Wan' my mag hy huil
Ag please, Boza!
Ek wil nes die Mandelas:
'n bloed rooi Mercedes
'n spier wit mansion
En Amandla!
Georgio Armani!
Awethu!
© farouk asvat
* original
composed: 12.06.1990
[johannesburg, south africa, under #apartheid ].
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Bra Frooks is ...
[] nes 'n skollie
[] 'n egte skollie
[] 'n tsotsi
[] a real scamp
[] streetwise
[] the jokerman
Bra Frooks ...
[] praat soos 'n skollie
[] wietie soos 'n joster
[] wietie what-what
[] tunes like a durbanite
[] speaks like an englishman
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[] acknowledgements:
Boss!' # / Boza!
* was previously published in:
The Wind Still Sings Sad Songs (piquant
publications, p44, 2007); #
Bra Frooks … (piquant publications, p32, 2007); *
https://faroukasvat-poems.blogspot.com/2014/10/boss.html (28.10.2014);
https://faroukasvat-lingo.blogspot.com/2012/04/boss.html (10.04.2012) = (boza);
Bra Frooks … (kindle, 2014); *
Bra Frooks … (paperback, p29, 2014); *
The Wind Still Sings Sad Songs (kindle, 2014); #
The Wind Still Sings Sad Songs (paperback, p42, 2014) #.
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