Browsing: Samuel Kamugisha poetry
Father wants my elder sister To forget the blackboard And warm his old friend’s bed As his seventh wife: An old man’s veal for his old…
Why all this hubbub, the minister asks About the killing of 10 people in an accident On our potholed roads Or the death of 16 women…
Tones of burden wrapped round my neck Head wrinkled. Hands bruised Emotions turned emojis: flecks. Blaring sweet music? Rattle and clatter Restless heart: worried of this…
Help me paint a picture of a soulless city
in Africa’s sunrise whose sun its gloom
has swallowed. Draw it as dark as darkness
itself. Paint the walking shells of humans