#ZimRef by Mgcini Nyoni

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Over imported cognac

They incinerated our views;

shook hands – ‘job well done comrades’

And shared mines and ‘indigenised’ businesses.

Over exotic coffee

they agreed on povo enslaving clauses;

shook hands –‘ job well done comrades’

And reached ‘compromises'

-          inflated parliament and oversized cabinet

On cruise boats in Kariba

and in massage parlours in Vumba

they struck political deals and ‘alliances’;

shook hands – ‘job well done comrades’

And drove us to the polls

to vote yes

for growing fleets of luxury cars

expanding waistlines

expensive holidays

and offshore accounts for them and offspring.