Lesego
Rampolokeng (1965, Soweto, South Africa). Poet, playwright, novelist, essayist and
documentary film-maker.
WORD DOWN THE
LINE
20 years in
Centuries down the line
The poets are hurting
The dreams’ corruption
Screams in the night and
The seams come apart in
Bill of Rights & Constitution
They hymen an apparition
Blac publishing radic nourishing
To Cry Rage in the Lie-Age
of pain’s lineage
Shame is the Blacker hues
Makhafula up to James Matthews
If I could sing
Daar’s kak in die land
(tune from the claws of satan
strummed behind the doors of parliament)
blood-tide rises with slaughter-current
march of the blackstorm
from no
sanctuary in freedom
minds’ Molotov
explosion
all the
insurrection way back home
blood-splutter
paint
on the cracked
walls of the cranium
megawatts in the
AMANDLA name
for the
power-game
but) who’ll pay
the bill of reparation
when what was
stolen
is that which is
Human
ridden from here to a mine-dump
the Richter
registration
of) worker ants
& termites
marching on feet
that are broken-
scales of
justice
& peace
hanging in the balance
of a snapped
brainstem
democracy-scam
celebration of a
sham
& THAT is my
WORD down the LINE
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