Iintsomi

Iintsomi 1. Awé awé 2. Woken by a distinct raucous of fellow farmers 3. Pilot holes whistling Atlantic squalls and the mourn for last supper. 4. I’m sardined into a bakkie. 5. Eks Langa Mathews. Coloured 6. Too white to be coloured, too coloured to be black . 7. I lay my head in Khayelitsha 8. Sometimes 9. Once, the crypt pipes egoli 10. Bon fired by faith 11. Today’s pick should fill my cup 12. I’m certain only wealthy deserve to live 13. Groomed in Genadendal 14. Bobotie umphokodo , the half-full primus and ma’ se houtlepel set the sun for a better tomorrow. 15. Age 16 picking the fruits of labour with no return of flavour 16. hopes fermented into yesterday 17. Drunk from the thoughts of tomorrow 18. Shosholoza Meyl, Jozi Maboneng! 19. 30 20. Finally, a ceramic roof, face brick wall and skopo for supper ema roomini ase Eldos 21. Neon lights dime street life reality 22. Palesa seeks refuge at the tip of the ‘alpha’ mans’ ego 23. Forgotten teachings from the dining table as we said amen. 24. Wasted. 25. Sigidla va? 26. Thabo asylumed from haven off the curbs of Hillbrow to Avalon, ancestral calling that maybe this time he’s found home.