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Nadine Botha

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I’M HAVING SEX WHILE EVERYONE IS DYING

The smell of your sweet accidental
sweat my fingers on cold
latex bounded for the top
bus springs my step
bump my head,
I gasp you.
Aren’t found on my breast,
riding one stage
to your grin,
lies so close
to everyone laughing.

Nadine Botha

(South Africa, 1979)

Nadine Botha was born in 1979 in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, and holds an Honours degree in Theory of Art from Rhodes University. She currently works in Cape Town as editor of Design Indaba magazine. Her poems have been published in various magazines in South Africa, including Donga, Southern Rain Poetry, Litnet, Sweet, New Coin, Ons Kleintjie, Laugh It Off and Botsotso.

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