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Blue overalls
Blue overalls
Blue overalls
the repetitive attention of some traditional african chantsa heroic struggle, like the personality of a soldier
an unbearable symbolic timing, like a scream
blue overalls, each like a blueberry
some presidential many selfless leaders
oh! such influential presidents
such great presidents
blueberry-blue overalls
lark-blue overalls
a knight-heroic struggle
© 2012, Simon Colton, Jacob Goodwin and Tony Veale
It was generally a good news day. I read a story in the Guardian culture section entitled: “South Africa\'s ANC celebrates centenary with moment in the sun”. It talked of south africans, interfaith prayers and monochrome photos. Apparently, “The heroic struggle against a racist regime was remembered: those thousands who sacrificed their lives in a quest for human rights and democracy that took more than eight decades” and “At midnight he watched with amusement as Zuma lit the centenary flame, at the second attempt, with some help from a man in blue overalls marked ʻExplosivesʼ”. I wanted to write something highly relevant to the original article. I wrote this poem.
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Blue overalls
the repetitive attention of some traditional african chantsa heroic struggle, like the personality of a soldier
an unbearable symbolic timing, like a scream
blue overalls, each like a blueberry
some presidential many selfless leaders
oh! such influential presidents
such great presidents
blueberry-blue overalls
lark-blue overalls
a knight-heroic struggle
It was generally a good news day. I read a story in the Guardian culture section entitled: “South Africa\'s ANC celebrates centenary with moment in the sun”. It talked of south africans, interfaith prayers and monochrome photos. Apparently, “The heroic struggle against a racist regime was remembered: those thousands who sacrificed their lives in a quest for human rights and democracy that took more than eight decades” and “At midnight he watched with amusement as Zuma lit the centenary flame, at the second attempt, with some help from a man in blue overalls marked ʻExplosivesʼ”. I wanted to write something highly relevant to the original article. I wrote this poem.
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