……..Sing songs of afghan circumcised,
Damascus masturbating bullets
Sing Belafonte Sing!
Of revolutions that never crawled, sing!
Lumumba, see whiz kids castrating political gods
Nkurumah, see them mutilating revolutionary goddesses
Sing Kunta, Sing Kinte
I am tired of revolutions importing colonial mood,
Propaganda decayed pimps frying anthems like frikadels
Tired savages roasting constitutions in corruption oil pans
Sing songs of freedoms that never walked, Sing!

art: “A Line is a Dot that Went for a Walk” Paul Klee, please visit his gallery for enjoyment and purchase.

MBIZO CHIRASHA has an extensive bio. We list a few here; Curator,  Sotambe Festival Live Literature Hub and Poetry Café, 2019 African Fellow for the International Human Rights Art Festival (ihraf.org), Poet in Residence at the Fictional Café (International publishing and literary digital space). An Arts for Peace and Human Rights Catalyst, Curator-the Literary Arts Project. MBIZO’s poetry and writing is published in more 200 spaces in print and online.