Kliptown

Kliptown jou big-bosomed giantess
Snuifbek matriarch of all lokasies
A century pregnant with mzabalazo credentials
Nkhono of mix-masala spekvet piccanins
packed like multi-colored Saldanha pilchards
shoving
grabbing
groping
competing with mammoth brommers
big as Ethekwini kokoroikies to suck
revolution from your diski-nippled stupendous breasts
transforming your tipsy twee-vertrek candle-lit koeshamba
into another tower of Babel

Your loins heaved forth The Charter
from your relitsoana of wisdom
great minds swigged
Gog Ellen Khuzwayo
Dr Maria Thakane
Dr Nana
Gerard Sekoto
Stanley Lollan
Kwai-Tong
and what about me

Madiba spent warm nights
enveloped in donkey komberse
besides your three legged Welcome Dover
emancipated from Verwoerd’s
CIA moegoes

Being Missus Freeholding
gedruk and gestamp tot binne in
Pitoka
exempted your laaities
from permit raids
and sprints with donkie-piel wielding
Black Jacks in pursuit

Eldorina, Lenzina, and sour Sowetina
snotkop tlakadoemas sezi manje manje
racial prostitutes of yesteryear
sporting ComBEEs with air bags,
electric illuminated, corobrick double-storeys,
stop-nonsense fences, and skontier roads with pavements

Skinners, you are archaic
you resembles Hiroshima post the A-Bomb
your toilet fumes causes anthrax scares amongst tourists
Sieeeeeeeeees
kak stories

Little notch they
you are up for an extreme make-over
Afro fashion designers
imported Image consultants
fire proofing hair extensions
pedicuring the stench of night soil
manicuriing the concrete lawns
liposucking chicken feet mafutha
silicone pumped khekhe
wrinkle smoothening Botox
into a bo-blink-onder-stink
courtesy of duplicitous peddlers

Hai suka manyeo

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