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zizipho bam
Apr 2, 20163 min
Beauty Classes in the Bus
She takes out a small mirror from her black leather purse. Traces the shape of her face in it. She lifts the wrinkles on her forehead up...
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zizipho bam
Mar 29, 20161 min
How to look cool in the doctors waiting room
1. Don’t read the magazines,those are for sick people. 2. Have a stare off with the old lady across the room untill she forgets she’s...
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zizipho bam
Mar 29, 20162 min
Well what do you know
I don’t know how my niece sees the world as this place of infinite possibilities. I don’t know how to love without forgetting myself. I...
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zizipho bam
Mar 26, 20161 min
Baby Sitting Nieces and Nephilims
When she finally falls asleep. The earth settles back into its place. She shuts her curious young eyes and piece becomes her name. ...
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zizipho bam
Mar 25, 20161 min
To Travellers
To long bus rides To coffee and muffins. To home. To tickets. To luggage. To strangers. To elbow wars. To awkward...
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zizipho bam
Mar 24, 20161 min
Code Name: Dragon Girl
THIS IS NOT A DRAGON I feel like a dragon. Breathing fire every time I open my mouth. You can try and get inside my head but you will be...
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zizipho bam
Mar 24, 20162 min
What Are You Afraid Of?
I’m afraid of dying. I’m afraid for the loved ones I will leave behind who will do everything in their power to continue with life as it...
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zizipho bam
Mar 23, 20168 min
I am an African-Thabo Mbeki. 8 May 1996
I am an African. I owe my being to the hills and the valleys, the mountains and the glades, the rivers, the deserts, the trees, the...
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zizipho bam
Mar 22, 20161 min
Music
Music finds its ultimate justification in our hearts. -Adolphe Appia
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zizipho bam
Mar 22, 20161 min
Like in the hour glass
How long have you been waiting? I feel like I am running out of time already, I am constantly on the move to catch up. I feel like I’m...
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zizipho bam
Mar 22, 20161 min
Searching…
We are all looking for some place to belong. Looking for people to call our own. Looking for chests to lay on. We’re all here to find...
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zizipho bam
Mar 18, 20162 min
20 Personalities before September
1. The writer in me wants to experience as much life as I can before I turn 21. 2. The 19year old in me wants to fuck shit up. 3. I...
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zizipho bam
Mar 18, 20162 min
Home
Home is not where i come from, It’s the places i have belonged to. The feeling of knowing. Home is the log outside the yard where my...
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zizipho bam
Mar 17, 20161 min
The Melanin
freetherobots The Melanin – 🀫 [stay away from contemporary Science for inquiry on this one] Melanin is a Black man’s substance of...
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zizipho bam
Mar 16, 20163 min
Number 19
Growing frail is an old folk story that begins with a walking stick with a handle shaped like the head of a lion. It slowly progresses...
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zizipho bam
Mar 15, 20162 min
Second to Fourth Floor.
The lift has stopped on the second floor. Black boy walks in. Stands next to me and knods, I knod back. I figure this is a rather...
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zizipho bam
Mar 14, 20162 min
Addiction.
Whats your story? Tell me your story? The “What makes you want to wake up in the morning” kind of story. The first thing that comes to...
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zizipho bam
Mar 13, 20162 min
The load on our soles.
” Hey, your shoes are so cool, but aren’t they heavy? “, the strange girl asked. In her head, the true response would be yes, every...
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zizipho bam
Mar 7, 20161 min
Unstoppable.
How’s your heart today? Can you say “broken” without thinking of ways to mend it? Did you smile when you looked at yourself in the...
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