NOTE:
In 2022, Nelson Mandela's famed South Africa, sanitation STINKS especially outside big cities. Municipalities only burn diapers ('KIMBIES', in local lingo) as women & a few men walk the LOCATION (or townships like Newtown for mixed race, locally called Coloureds). But before daylight burning of trash & plastics, dogs tear diapers on every street. One fails to convince even educated people of color to wait for the weekly trash trucks, or for feeding the filth to the fires burning a few times each week. Instead we have the following senryu situation
II senryu from South Africa
Rain in slow showers
Feed bush, Nature, dirt-roads -
Mud white - gel, torn diapers
N Now that I am in Africa, romance apart
O Only because I'm a human ship at sea
R Roaming the globe, perhaps for Jesus
E Even when I was His enemy, His currents
G Gave me wind and opportunity, first Ohio
R Returning to native land, mixed love
E Exploring democracy in south Africa, sad
T Today, a fake America, none of US creativity
S Still, I stay: teach Bible, love the kids, His will
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