Tuesday, March 24, 2009

News at Eleven: "When the family says sugar is spent,

I wear my uniform, my constabulary tunic, to march to the anxiety charged queue to suppress all dissent when I jump the queue."

The poem also talks of an army chef who drives to a local service station on a private car to buy fuel ahead of other desperate motorists.

But hardly had the elated crowd finished congratulating the poet [Julius Chingono] for his candid poetry than some police details manning the police base summoned him into the wooden structure to quiz him on the poem.

from The Zimbabwe Times: Poet detained after reciting poem

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