Robbing Robben Island Poem by Margaret Alice

Robbing Robben Island



How does one teach people not to slaughter
the golden goose laying the golden eggs, but
to take care of and let the eggs increase?

How does one teach the golden-goose fable to
people to make them understand the beauty
of rational self-interest?

Robben Island’s prison was entrusted to its
former inmates who dipped into the income
made from tourists paying to see where

Madiba dressed stones in an ancient quarry; the
scam was revealed, the funds for its upkeep are
gone; this mindset

Can’t be changed surgically; only by teaching people
how to take care of rational self-interest by investing
in future dividends

Can the need for humanitarian aid be prevented,
keeping the goose alive and selling eggs makes
so much more sense than

Eating today and receiving alms tomorrow – maybe
a course in fairytales will be Africa’s salvation, a
world of common sense is taught that way…

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Chris Mendros 06 August 2008

Maybe. Hopefully. But likely? ? ?

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Margaret Alice

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Pretoria - South Africa
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