Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Your Father II by Mgcini Nyoni


Your father
used to sit by the bridge
at the shops
smoking marijuana
The man
you call daddy
is not your father
Damn!
How I wish he was
They used to say
your father
was one of the young man
who mugged people
by the clinic intersection.
I heard they stabbed
your father to death
two years ago
in a senseless street scuffle
Your father
used to sit by the bridge
at the shops
propositioning young girls;
I now know
the incident
that produced you
was rape.
Your father
used to sit by the bridge
at the shops
drinking undiluted brandy
They say
he was stabbed to death
in a senseless street scuffle
two years ago.

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