Holli Holdsworth - Sept/Oct 2009
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Holli Holdsworth - Sept/Oct 2009 |
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AFRICAN TRIANGLE Lush Green Siphoning Sipping earthwine Cocktail of sadness and salty tears Potholes of memories Laughter trees Emerald Lime Mango Africa Wet flesh Sloppy yellow sliding down Chocolate chin Wide white grin Dusty fingers sliced through with the rabid juice Cry to the red red blood soil boy of torn GAP t-shirt The widening gap of evolution Stained yellow and red and smudged brown Stain the universe with a foul history No simple game here No recess from school playground life No life at all The great white hope is not spelled U, N, On the side of a great white monster speeding by Spitting lumps of gutter mud Off to dine wine meet greet retreat Resolutions afar like rice among maggots Fed to agencies without arms Spread over tin ghettos like rust Perpetuate, ridicule Blue blue boy Old old man. Africa. Holli Holdsworth is a 38yr old Canadian, living and working in West Africa for the past 12 years. Life around me inspires, shocks, saddens and keeps me on my toes. I live to write about it all, while living it, breathing it... taking it all in. |