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Dambudzo Marechera
The Bar-Stool Edible Worm
The Bar-Stool Edible Worm
The Bar-Stool Edible Worm
I’m against everythingAgainst war and those against
War. Against whatever diminishes
Th’ individual’s blind impulse.
Shake the peaches down from
The summer poem, Rake in ripe
Luminosity; dust; taste. Lunchtime
News – pass the Castor Oil, Alice.
© 1992, Flora Veit Wild
From: Cemetery of Mind, Section iv Buddy’s Selected Poems
Publisher: Baobab Books, Harare
From: Cemetery of Mind, Section iv Buddy’s Selected Poems
Publisher: Baobab Books, Harare
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The Bar-Stool Edible Worm
I’m against everythingAgainst war and those against
War. Against whatever diminishes
Th’ individual’s blind impulse.
Shake the peaches down from
The summer poem, Rake in ripe
Luminosity; dust; taste. Lunchtime
News – pass the Castor Oil, Alice.
From: Cemetery of Mind, Section iv Buddy’s Selected Poems
The Bar-Stool Edible Worm
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