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Honest Living by Jabulani Mzinyathi

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Photo by Jabulani Mzinyathi They even doubt my sanity Lying on this contraption That puts bread on my table That earns me lots of admiration The many mouths I feed My life is like Russian roulette There in the city hustle and bustle Weaving through fast moving traffic Risking a gruesome death on the roads Playing cat and mouse games with cops The fatigue then takes its toll

Platform by Mgcini Nyoni

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Give me a platform To laugh To dance To create To sing Give me a platform To love To be loved Give me a platform To be happy To dream To fantasise To achieve Give me a platform To get to the top and when I fall badly bruised pick me up and give me another PLATFORM

Send Your Sweat By Western Union!!! by Nomakhosazana Khanyile Ncube

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They have raped my mind, those white collared bastards! What calluses bear a hardness deeper than the skin? calluses of the mind.... decision upon intricate decision, pounding the grains of societies expectation. From nursery school to primary school to high school to law school to the empty bar stool, decision upon intricate decision, pounding... The cigarettes of life's endless events have no butts, we stand smoking,burning our fingers with destiny's grip. pounding. yielding pounding sending out life's endless R.S.V.P's, attending our own births, attending our own deaths attending our own toilet visits attending our own graduations n divorces even the occasional date with the common cold. pounding, decision upon intricate decision, We've come full circle,only to learn that the world is round. education is the curse of the simple class-the simple life. dy-dx the worlds mathematics has failed us again, Peugeot,PHD and Panasonic It is a si...