Chenjerai Hove Tyrant
Why cry
for the wingless spirit bird?
Why cry
for the honeybird?
The king attends a funeral
and dances with his eyebrows,
his naked words
smelling of sandand gunpowder.
The polluted windonly
smells of lost dreams,
some kinds of amorphous declarations
about blood mixed with dance songs.
Our royal king
smokes a tired cigarette
and eats biscuits with a fork.
He lives in volcanic tempers,
sniffing the wind
for armed insurgency
in all locked places.
The king, he wears necklaces of bullets
his lips stiff with pronouncements.
Tomorrow's funeralis banned,
Tomorrow's funeralis banned,
the corpse detained for further questioning.
(in wordswithoutborders http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/?lab=HoveTyrant)
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