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ekaterinnTonight, a snippet of Dionne Brand, one of my favourite contemporary poets:
Someone at a party
drew me aside to tell me a lie
about my poems,
they said "you write well,
your use of language is remarkable"
Well if that was true, hell
would break loose by now,
colonies and fascist states would fall,
housework would be banned,
pregnant women would walk naked in the streets,
men would stay home at night, cowering.
whoever it was, this trickster,
I wish they'd keep their damn lies
to themselves.
-- From Chronicles of the Hostile Sun (1984), p. 33
Someone at a party
drew me aside to tell me a lie
about my poems,
they said "you write well,
your use of language is remarkable"
Well if that was true, hell
would break loose by now,
colonies and fascist states would fall,
housework would be banned,
pregnant women would walk naked in the streets,
men would stay home at night, cowering.
whoever it was, this trickster,
I wish they'd keep their damn lies
to themselves.
-- From Chronicles of the Hostile Sun (1984), p. 33
