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Dambudzo Marechera
Who’s Used my New Rucksack!?
Who’s Used my New Rucksack!?
Who’s Used my New Rucksack!?
Had this nightmareBashed out my brother’s brains
Woke to find I owed rent
Had this dream
Fucking my sister
Woke to find final demands
Tried to sort out the sunlit night
Thieving pimping talk it outright
Got back bailiffs were breaking down the door
And I thought even a son-of-a-bitch’s
Supposed to have FAMILY
Their scraps of excuses kicked me back
Into the night
Now there’s nothing but not to think
Yes not-to-think is the only taboo
The Pandora’s rucksack inside the anarchist’s
Tiny mind
© 1992, Flora Veit Wild
From: Cemetery of Mind, There is a Dissident in the Election Soup
Publisher: Baobab Books, Harare
From: Cemetery of Mind, There is a Dissident in the Election Soup
Publisher: Baobab Books, Harare
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Who’s Used my New Rucksack!?
Had this nightmareBashed out my brother’s brains
Woke to find I owed rent
Had this dream
Fucking my sister
Woke to find final demands
Tried to sort out the sunlit night
Thieving pimping talk it outright
Got back bailiffs were breaking down the door
And I thought even a son-of-a-bitch’s
Supposed to have FAMILY
Their scraps of excuses kicked me back
Into the night
Now there’s nothing but not to think
Yes not-to-think is the only taboo
The Pandora’s rucksack inside the anarchist’s
Tiny mind
From: Cemetery of Mind, There is a Dissident in the Election Soup
Who’s Used my New Rucksack!?
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