Poetry Bulawayo

Image - swradioafrica.com 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.