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Freedom T.V. Nyamubaya

AMAZING STOMACH

AMAZING STOMACH

AMAZING STOMACH

This stomach is made of leather
Can stretch far enough
To carry babies for nine months.
This skin is elastic!
Can dance Kwasa Kwasa like a yoyo

This stomach is brave
Survived six Caesarian sections
To produce those children
This stomach can be stiff
Enough to fight back
All that pressure from a thrusting rapist.

This chocolate-brown stomach has many colours
Gets darker as it goes south
North it’s a deep purple, the colour of erect nipples
Grey-brown as it reaches to the armpit.

The slippery skin like a puff-adder can be cold
Particularly when no one cares no more
The damn thing can be soft
So soft to turn on over a stressed man
This stomach of multiple behaviour.
A place of digestion in action.
This amazing stomach.
Freedom T.V. Nyamubaya

Freedom T.V. Nyamubaya

(Zimbabwe, 1960 - 2015)

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AMAZING STOMACH

This stomach is made of leather
Can stretch far enough
To carry babies for nine months.
This skin is elastic!
Can dance Kwasa Kwasa like a yoyo

This stomach is brave
Survived six Caesarian sections
To produce those children
This stomach can be stiff
Enough to fight back
All that pressure from a thrusting rapist.

This chocolate-brown stomach has many colours
Gets darker as it goes south
North it’s a deep purple, the colour of erect nipples
Grey-brown as it reaches to the armpit.

The slippery skin like a puff-adder can be cold
Particularly when no one cares no more
The damn thing can be soft
So soft to turn on over a stressed man
This stomach of multiple behaviour.
A place of digestion in action.
This amazing stomach.

AMAZING STOMACH

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Gemeente Rotterdam
Nederlands Letterenfonds
Stichting Van Beuningen Peterich-fonds
Prins Bernhard cultuurfonds
Lira fonds
Versopolis
J.E. Jurriaanse
Gefinancierd door de Europese Unie
Elise Mathilde Fonds
Stichting Verzameling van Wijngaarden-Boot
Veerhuis
VDM
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