In honour of a very short blunt
It feels like ice cream melting in my tongue. “Twitter never sleeps”, he says Don’t say God’s name in vain. Don’t summon the sky if...
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zizipho bam
- Jun 1, 2016
- 1 min
For Women Who Are Difficult to Love
you are a horse running alone and he tries to tame you compares you to an impossible highway to a burning house says you are blinding...
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zizipho bam
- May 26, 2016
- 1 min
Missing
I miss the yellow bird that sings outside my window in the summer. I miss bright red stoeps from my old house. My new house looks like...
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zizipho bam
- May 25, 2016
- 2 min
Silenced and Censored
Hanging: The voices of the silenced and censored. -Zizipho Bam The people with the loud speaker want to represent us. They want to stand...
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zizipho bam
- May 19, 2016
- 3 min
Drawing Charles Bukowski’s face : A title that has nothing and everything to do with what I
I am holding a piece of charcoal in my hand. A blank page in front of me. Music at just the appropriate volume for inspiration. But the...
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zizipho bam
- May 16, 2016
- 1 min
Cloudy with a chance of emergency sirens.
The sun won’t come out today. The sky is heavy. Cumilonimbus and gloomy. My skin wants to hide itself as well. Tell the body we are...
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zizipho bam
- May 16, 2016
- 1 min
Number 4.
There are stains on the walls. Not the kind of stains that come from dirty shoes or blood. The walls here have a voice. They are...
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zizipho bam
- May 12, 2016
- 1 min
EVENT WRAP UP: SEASON 6 EPISODE 4 — Word N Sound Live Literature Co.
There’s no one in the world who would’ve predicted the outcome of the show this passed Saturday. For the first time in the Poetry League...
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zizipho bam
- May 4, 2016
- 1 min
Certainly
I envy you. How assertively you speak. The intention in your walk. How certain you are of everything. Who showed you how to look at the...
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zizipho bam
- Apr 25, 2016
- 2 min
I cant hear you.
A stale, still mass of body folded into the floor next to me. Folded around me. Folded into me. Folded as me. I sat there, numb. ...
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zizipho bam
- Apr 25, 2016
- 1 min
Unspoken to Self.
I am standing at the door. Knocking. Waiting for you to let me in. You are trying to write me away. Constructing the perfect...
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zizipho bam
- Apr 18, 2016
- 1 min
Pending Personality
I don’t want to be black, body or brave. I don’t want to be secret and scared. I don’t want to be woman. I don’t want to be warrior...
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zizipho bam
- Apr 18, 2016
- 1 min
Undisclaimer
When you recite a dying poem to strangers. Try to sound less disfigured in front of them. Fix your posture, some words say with less...
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zizipho bam
- Apr 15, 2016
- 1 min
“Dont stare, you’re being weird”
Moments when you stare. When you can’t help but stare. Can’t help but let him stare back at you. And you speak. Speak but not with your...
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zizipho bam
- Apr 14, 2016
- 1 min
To Do list in the Waiting List
1. Wait. 2. Forget yourself. 3. Freeze the clock. 4. Watch time stay in the same place. 5. Convince yourself that something is going...
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zizipho bam
- Apr 8, 2016
- 2 min
Writing for a Bushfire
I entered the writing session as a ball of fire. Having experienced another situation where an old racist man had silenced my voice and...
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zizipho bam
- Apr 7, 2016
- 1 min
Go Figure!
I am tired of explaining myself. I want to be quiet. Without feeling guilty for my silence. I’m tired of making my words the marrow in my...
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zizipho bam
- Apr 6, 2016
- 1 min
Mid-night Lonesome
Read this when silence wants to crawl under your skin. When there are echoes beneath your tongue. Believe this when they have all gone...
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