ABUSIVE NAMES Poem by Julius Chingono

ABUSIVE NAMES



On giving birth
a woman
named her first-born
a daughter
‘Mistake'
The second-born
a son
‘Kickmore'
the last-born
a son
‘Forget'
Thereafter
she remained single.
For the remainder
of her bearing life
she did not dare
beget another abusive name.

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