TWO POEMS COMPOSED 21 AND 22 JUNE 2008 RESPECTIVELY

politicians and priests

the dominance submerges discussion
that elevation to the podiums
the raping of the mesmerised audience
those that submit to your machinations
listening to your befuddling poly-tricks
listening to your self righteousness
politician and priest cast in the same mould
thriving best where fear spreads
but listen now to this ant voice
that ominous warning: beware the ides of march
that myth of your invincibility shattered
king owl's horns exposed for what they were
that folk tale still holds that lesson

VICTIMS

driven by dreams of egoli

that place of elusive gold

that place of the elusive rand

driven from the burning home

evading the murderous gangs

evading the man eating crocodiles

the real possibility of drowning

scavenging for an existence

still chasing after those illusions

jumping from the frying pan into the fire

the shacks razed to the ground

the gruesome deaths in the ghettoes

the victims of the victims

the real foe remains unscathed

like amoeba the poverty multiplies