Like an Ass.
- Thabiso Nkoana
- Mar 24, 2015
- 1 min read
So you want similes
like junkies who don’t know how to get their next heroin
like Jesus freaks on bended knees
like Islam geeks on suicide scenes
as anxious for death as Macbeth
as serious about black as Biko’s mac;
an Afrikan sister can never be whack
born and bread
it was said
on Sobukwe’s back.
Let me see
like the point of similes
sin is still sin
wrong still lives as wrong
pain never stopped hurting
love is life
new generation
O. B. E. education
material fixations
no physical frustrations
Black Label medication
like blood pressure situations
hyper tense relaxation
simile taxation
language in false elation
for a standing ovation.
So let us assimilate,
accentuate our similarities
no time to think
sheep still eat
find time to sleep
fornicate on lush greens
so let us just be
judgemental on the way home from church
arrogant on the way to work
elitist at poetry sessions
and ignorant in the times between,
perhaps not.
How about praying for our enemies
if we have any
Help draft a C. V.
and how to handle an interview
Forget our words
and focus on their meaning
Let us be ignorant of beef
and a note to me
find inner safety.
How poetic
the same old rhetoric
so why wont we reform to it?
I guess it won’t afford a Blue Label
make you bling
and win the popularity thing.
So senseless similes strung sequentially cement scripters scripting stupidly
selfishly seeking brain cell slavery
allow me not to touch
on their a, b rhyme schemes
infantile like black sheep
or their army type colour schemes
when they know nothing
about fighting teams
like the B. E. E. tender peeps
as selfish as a pen
as greedy as the page
as lame as Men’s Health
So I gave you similes
like be careful what you wish for.
Thabiso Nkoana©2007
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