Lively Links Poem by priscah Mutswenje

Today
In the pretty prostitute
I saw the eminent embryo
Of my nation
Curved with its claws
Twisted was its head
In the suffocation of the cloy
Ashamed of being seen
For its wound windy ear lops
Sunken was its cheerful cheeks
Eaten by brutal business
Of the cock cockroaches
And tightly tied by her mouth
For the scaring scars serrated
All over it;
Today
Thin were overdone hands
Leggy were the lifeless supportive legs
Of desperate desiccation
Gasping for bubbles of breaths
Excretes freely flew
That defines drawn lively links