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October 23, 2009

post apartheid stress syndrome

Filed under: helge janssen, poetry — ABRAXAS @ 2:20 pm

pass

passed

waiting in the corridors
fighting in the minds of those
identifying with the work of our
fellows

then the strange came

then the swarm swarmed
the beehive money
for the taking

the quondam regime
being so despicable
made it easy to be immune
to assume entitlement
for laws of just settlement
were wavered
in the winds

of course change has come
the change to be like them
they fell into the trap
with arms wide open

had learnt the uncorrected things
to fit into the old flake shoes
also to stomp the path well ridden

they missed an opportunity golden
they thrashed the thing they loved
where money does buy love

is only to be human

nature

they just couldn’t rise above
the dis-ease of euphoria

this is their legacy as it now bends
whether they want to stone it or not

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