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POEMS FROM ZIMBABWE SELECTED POETS FROM ZIMBABWE GET MARRIED MY DAUGHTER My daughter, get married to Spears So that we get cattle to plough with My daughter, get married to Spears So that we get bags of maize meal There is no need for you to continue with school Now you can cook well and clean the homestead And that’s enough for a woman. Go get bathing my daughter Mr Spears will be here soon Start preparing good meals my daughter Mr Spears will be here soon. Unique 22 T R Ó C A I R E A N D P O E T R Y I R E L A N D
POEMS FROM ZIMBABWE SELECTED POETS FROM ZIMBABWE 40 YEARS AGO I was not there but I care To tell others what my father told me He was young, nine or ten White boys like him he had to call Baas (Sir) Grandfather had to call them Piccaninny Baas A poor white man called Baas and the wife Missus (Mrs) White man and his wife called me grandfather boy Grandmother was called Nkazana (girl). Father says he grew up in a whiteman’s farm without a school He went to stay with his uncle to attend school Where he ate inadequate meals because Uncle did not care Father’s uncle used a big stick to beat up my father. Mother says during the liberation struggle Many people died Many children became orphans And some schools were closed down. Schools were few but fees were affordable then Grandfather sent my father to a boarding school He had many cattle to pay for fees for all his children Father and his brothers always ate meals. Grandfather says he had a tractor He got $9 per month from whiteman Why is he 99 years old now When his cousin died at 87? Ba’mcane T O D A Y ’ S C H I L D R E N , T O M O R R O W ’ S W O R L D 23
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