BAREFOOT BROWN KIDDIES
Poet’s Note : Robertson & Ashton are two small wine producing towns in the Karoo of South Africa. Robertson is known as the Town of Roses & Wine because it is exceedingly beautiful, yet the wealth discrepancies between the farm owners & their workers remain vast, even to this day. I worked on a small fruit farm in Robertson managing a guesthouse & witnessed extreme dualities between rich & poor.
BAREFOOT BROWN KIDDIES
The road from a town of Roses and Wine to
its little sister Ashton is littered with brown
barefoot kiddies eating Niknaks
Pappas remain addicted to
Lieberstein
Mamas continue to slave in guest houses
blond boss ladies do their hair or
paint nails purple
a Makarov and it’s bullets are
memories in the
Dust of Fate
Robertson farms remain
governed by pale
males
Ashton fields despondent in colonial
clutches of wealth
they continue to concoct
“Best Reds in the World”
some drink that new bourgeoisie refine
their taste buds with when struggle
days are long gone
nonchalant barefoot brown
kiddies run annual races from
Ashton to Robertson
ignorant of good
food or any vote
achieved
Neither am I happy or sad
©GhairoDanielsPoetry
2011
Copyright © Ghairo Daniels | Year Posted 2025
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