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Christmas in Zimbabwe

Empty pockets, empty minds, empty hopes

The trees standstill
Giant jacarandas
Flowering bougainvillaeas
Meander and strangle vleis
Leaves shake not
Under the shades
Men young and old
Play draughts
Plenty laughs
A great day for anything
Beer, banter, family and.
Yes sex

A great day for anything
Except…
Very empty pockets
Draughts, beer go hand in glove
After all, is this not December
The month of merriment
But what is Christmas without…
Yep, beer and sex

Can’t make love on an empty pocket
What to buy condoms with here in the pub, no?
What to buy food with for the mother of the house?
Can’t make love on an empty stomach, no?
The trees standstill
Clear sky
The rains have for a moment disappeared

A great day for anything?

Except this is my Christmas.
Empty pockets, empty minds, empty hopes

This entry was posted on December 11th, 2009 at 3:02 pm by Marko Phiri and is filed under Reflections, Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

One comment to “Christmas in Zimbabwe”

Comment by me:
Wednesday, December 16th 2009 at 8:34 am
will have loved a good christmas story. Surely there is something positive happening. We now have shelves full of goods and prices are now comparable. Even my parents poor neighbour in Glen norah are buying clothes and groceries for christmas.

We need people who paint bright colours once in a while instead of the gloom and doom above. And whats with the condoms anyway? I prefer family christmas, not where one has to visit a small house and thereby need condoms.