in the midst of their structural
violence they set up courts and give
shocked interviews about the South’s
sloth, impunity, their Law
and Disorder, Profit and Plunder
their Casino Capitalism
their Bogus Democracies
their False Labels Fetish
the Typecasting Politics of Phantom
States the Bulging Bellied
Dictators with their
Queen Elizabeth-cloned
Fake Dreams men who have never
even planted a seed in the earth
race around insolently with heavy weapons
ray-bans and rotten cocks
5.
let’s use the pronoun ‘we’ for a change, become part
of the world’s negating vocabulary for us because you are also
us, us with the ethnic testicles and unemployed youth trekking like
a plague of locusts it’s our representatives who leave behind rusted railway lines
crumbling roads and the ruined infrastructure of towns yes we vote
for the ones with the international salaries national syndicates but who can’t
audit a foyer pot plant correctly or draw up a balance sheet
6.
how does one breathe in the midst of all this violence
killing corruption rape the open and outward
festering of hate in this country
the searing and tearing apart of children – in-
human the poverty the poverty the dehumanisation
of it the grandmothers with their pensions
and sparkle of children the phalanxes of youth
bored and scabrous fed with ancestral
sacrifices who hold up absurdities as tradition
how does one live amongst this how does one live
in honourable balance how do you keep your
integrity amidst so much daily violation?
7.
between Lady Justice and Lady Justice First World
attention is constantly diverted from
the true locus of our deformed world:
Lady Justice has long since stopped focusing on justice
and turned instead to the law while poverty is not a given
but the blemish of deliberate un-
equalising through the systematic deprivation of others
the law sleeps unwillingly in the beds of
the poor. all our pants are unbuttoned
all our erections are visible Lady Justice lies
with her loamy locks on the mazista floor
it suits us that she’s a woman because now it’s
her word against ours: reconciliation is the celebration
of injustice, being kept inferior feeds the hate
8.
academics claim that the single vertically
integrated dominance of the West
has been replaced nowadays by the nervous
somewhat xenophobically tainted concept of
dissimilarity and heterodoxy
all according to Fanon’s logical template
therefore all one can do is post-colonially
sigh, smile and shrug one’s shoulders
9.
but how do we hold each other’s blood in safekeeping other than
to fervently commit ourselves to our shared sky and the sanctity
of all bodies so that the heartless the merciless the brutal
the cruel the vicious are not what we wear
facing each other. in the end, wherever you are, the
foundations on which everything rests remain corruption and complicity
but the most dangerous of them all are the clean hands
Based on texts by JM Coetzee, John and Jean Comaroff,
Frantz Fanon and Carl Jung.
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