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Fungisayi Sasa

LULLABY

LULLABY

LULLABY

my mother sings me to sleep and i wake
clinging to the wet wall of her drunken tears
i miss your father i miss you

leaning in close

the alcohol on her breath ushers me into dreams where sheep
count the empty bottles of Baileys in the bathtub
while a talking fox sitting cross-legged on the toilet tells me about puberty
Fungisayi Sasa

Fungisayi Sasa

(Zimbabwe, 1983)

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LULLABY

my mother sings me to sleep and i wake
clinging to the wet wall of her drunken tears
i miss your father i miss you

leaning in close

the alcohol on her breath ushers me into dreams where sheep
count the empty bottles of Baileys in the bathtub
while a talking fox sitting cross-legged on the toilet tells me about puberty

LULLABY

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