OVER THE
WALL AN' ALL
© Farouk Asvat
What can
do, Brotther?
My ma
didn't grow me up so well
Feeding me
tinfish-curry an' all
So I don't
understand so good
What is
going on here
With all
this fancy politics an' all
But I tune
you, my Brotther,
Mandela has
gone over the wall an' all
Dancing the
Compromise with de Klerk;
And our
brother, the Gucci Marxist,
Is standing
around, Stetson in hand,
Lighting
his pipe with his Dunhill lighter,
Having one
big bunny chow
In his five
million mansion
With Uncle
Sol an' all
Entertaining
the guys from McDonalds
With caviar
and champagne;
They are
all, one and all,
So
Whitey-shocked, I tune you
But what
can do, Brotther?
I tell you
I am so chillies
I want to
tie the dog loose on them
Poke them
in the eye with stainless steel cutlery
Throw them
with expensive building material
Because
they're all like Big Bosses now;
Don't want
to know us, I tune you,
All and one
of them
© farouk asvat
*
original composed: 21.10.1991 [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)*
● The
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:
[]
TUNE LIKE A DURBANITE
OVER THE WALL AN' ALL
© Farouk Asvat
What can do, Broer?
My ma didn't grow me up so well
Feeding me tinfish curry an' all
So I don't understand so good
What is going on here
With all this fancy politics an' all
But I tune you, my Broer,
Mandela has gone over the wall an' all
Dancing the Codesa with de Klerk;
And our brother, the Gucci Marxist,
Is standing around, Stetson in hand,
Lighting his pipe with his Dunhill lighter,
Having one big bunny chow
In his five million mansion
With Uncle Sol an' all
Entertaining the ous from McDonalds
With caviar and champagne;
They are all, one and all,
So Lahnie-verskrik, I tune you
But what can do, Broer?
I tell you I am so chillies
I want to tie the dog loose on them
Poke them in the eye with stainless steel cutlery
Throw them with expensive building material
Because they're all like Big Lahnies now;
Don't want to know us, I tune you,
All and one of them
© farouk asvat
*
original composed: 21.10.1991 [johannesburg, south africa, under #apartheid ].
____________
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
_____________________________________________________________________________
[] acknowledgements:
Over The Wall An' All * / Over The Wall An' All #
was previously published in:
The Wind Still Sings Sad Songs (piquant publications, p45,
2006); #
Bra Frooks … (piquant publications, p33, 2006); *
Bra Frooks … (kindle, 2014); *
Bra Frooks … (amazon
paperback, p30, 2014); *
The Wind Still Sings Sad Songs (kindle, 2014); #
The Wind Still Sings Sad Songs
(amazon paperback,
p43, 2014). #
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