colonial levity

By | 1 November 2019

Stumbling through Botswanan delta, the poet’s wife
lines up and frames
the Okavango natives as arsonists (maybe!), his
words tripping
down her tongue. Her rubies flash bright in the face
of all that applause.
In her wake, he satirized the King’s Dream with
colonial levity
(during When Is White History Month) to tittering
laughter.

He tells us of the collected skulls in St Nikolai
Church, severed and shelved
to deter robbers.

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