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zizipho bam
- Apr 2, 2016
- 3 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, 2016
- 1 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, 2016
- 2 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, 2016
- 1 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, 2016
- 1 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, 2016
- 1 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, 2016
- 2 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, 2016
- 8 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, 2016
- 1 min
Music
Music finds its ultimate justification in our hearts. -Adolphe Appia
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zizipho bam
- Mar 22, 2016
- 1 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, 2016
- 1 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, 2016
- 2 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, 2016
- 2 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, 2016
- 1 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, 2016
- 3 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, 2016
- 2 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, 2016
- 2 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, 2016
- 2 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, 2016
- 1 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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