Thabani Khumalo Poems

My head implodes with a splitting headache
and I think I can be able to deduce why,
for I heard the siren song of the ambulance van running by
and I knew exactly that somebody in severe pain is going to die -
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The Portuguese have told a lie;
the man that sailed the seven seas
and trod the shores to state of it
the daring chronicles of dreadful storms.
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There is no busier man than the one in love.
All the world dies for is a warranted desire to touch.

People, sometimes,
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The clan of angels enturbulate the living determinism of the race of man,
they draw diagrams on paper and call them money;
forcefully lure the race of man to surrender their youth for it,
they force the race of man to buy their food with their money;
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The trail of Mzilikazi is the one that is hard to follow
because it is chaotically dangerous and deadly,
but the trail of Tman Kiry is simply having to understand its rudimentary.
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The clan of angels enturbulate the living determinism of the race of man,
they draw diagrams on paper and call them money;
forcefully lure the race of man to surrender their youth for it,
they force the race of man to buy their food with their money;
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I am He! theSpirit!
having sight in the feet:
Strong, and the Immortal Fire!
I am He! the Truth!
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