Professin’ The Blues
“I wrote a very nice article for the Sowetan,
deconstructing the super structure of the minority
complexes.” The professor wore a seersucker suit. His
pronunciation of all the theoretical terms was halting and
self-consciously mannered. The word “deconstruct” came up
at least every thirty seconds in his tirade. He was apparently busy
deconstructing the borrowing wholesale of concepts from America without
realising that deconstruction itself was a concept borrowed wholesale
from Europe. “Ubuntu keeps people poor.” “In fact there is nobody
in poverty; you always have a choice to decide or not to decide.”
“Right now if you can write a proposal on anti-terrorism,
you’ll get a lot of money.” The professor grins, Asks
the poet for his lighter, Sets himself alight, wryly
Deconstructs the briskly cavorting flames
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