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POEM: "The African Comic Reflects"

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I tell the one about a tree,

A burning tire and a goat,

And somehow the irony

Gets lost in the simile. Think again.

Funny indeed are the uses of the word.

Nonsense turns into mango boobs,

A bicycle disappears in the dark,

That sweet fruit might be a bomb.

The bloody taste of language.

Kids I know have to disregard

Their shit of horrible screams —

Fear of ghosts so bad they are

Ghosts themselves. No irony

I can see in the spirit-world. 

Never again to weigh that up

Against the penetrable imagination.

But the timing's difficult.

Allahu Akbar.

                                                                                                                                                                                                         

                                                     ©ROB SCHACKNE (2009)

 

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