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 Xhosa women in clothes too light

for the weather have brought wild flowers

and sit sloped along the Claremont road.


I see her through rolled windows,

watch her watch me to decide if I’ll pay.


It’s South Africa, after all, after apartheid;

but we’re still idling here, my car to her curb,

my automatic locks to her inadequate wage.

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