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Nuwe stukke, wanneer hulle gebeur
Inked forever
a reminder to fight
even as blood trickle down
bruised, battered.
Against the stock standard,
against the norm,
the expected.
To be more
a reminder to try
against all odds against
all. Never giving
limits are imagined,
self-imposed
a fulfilling prophecy.
(Against the dying) as instructed
(of the light) we fight
I will keep raging
against the mundane,
the vanilla taste
of nothing to show.
Against all, I am.
What Cape Town’s vandalised rainbow crossing says about religious entitlement. Someone took a tin of paint to a public road and called it an act of faith. Here is what it actually cost, and who ends up paying for it.
I have loved from the fireline—bold, open,unafraid of the burn. I have danced the dance ofalmost-lovers,almost-timings,almost-yes. But I do not burn myselfto
John’s mother was convinced she had an influence on the weather. She had very bushy eyebrows that met in the middle, and