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zizipho bam
Mar 18, 20162 min read
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 read
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 read
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 read
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 read
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 read
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 read
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 10, 20163 min read
Imagining the Soul
The lunch hour concert this week on campus was one that greatly inspired me.It was a collaboration between pianist Thabo Matsime (IG:...
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zizipho bam
Mar 7, 20161 min read
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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zizipho bam
Mar 6, 20162 min read
Questionnaire for the confused
What makes you want to wake up in the morning? What stops you from just turning over on your bed and continue sleeping? What are you...
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zizipho bam
Mar 5, 20161 min read
Conforming Non-conformist.
Tonight, try to be human. go to sleep early, infact, fall asleep on the couch and dream a beautiful dream allow yourself to believe in...
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zizipho bam
Mar 3, 20161 min read
Profile Profanity
Even when she is looking away, You are planting your gaze. You are quenching your thirst. Some of you digging holes inside her face....
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zizipho bam
Mar 3, 20161 min read
Unbroken.
Someone said your face always looks like it is falling apart. ” why are you so sad”. You replied with something that was meant to look...
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zizipho bam
Mar 2, 20162 min read
Soldiers enrolled at university
The boy in a blue hoodie and his friend are talking in the lift about how they will get home. The blue hooded boy mentions how he had...
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zizipho bam
Mar 1, 20162 min read
The storm and the silence
Grandmother, tonight there was a huge storm. Deafening thunder sounding louder than I had ever heard it before. The lightening was...
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zizipho bam
Mar 1, 20162 min read
Censor Me.
To you who looks at me like I am a walking mortuary, carrying a dead body.Looks down at me, looks pissed off at me, looks suspicious of...
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zizipho bam
Mar 1, 20162 min read
Number 1
Lover, lately it’s been hard to breath under all this skin. I have been choking in my sleep from the weight of this flesh resting on my...
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zizipho bam
Feb 25, 20161 min read
Mortality
On Tuesday morning, The roof of your shack was leaking Every drop was a drip of water you wished to savor. You lied in your bed, watched...
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zizipho bam
Feb 25, 20161 min read
The inevitable.
This morning you woke up With the entire world on your shoulders. From the foreign land, You are guilty of the crimes your brothers...
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zizipho bam
Feb 24, 20161 min read
Distortion
To the people from the outside Every time I close my eyes, I am running away from something. Inside my body Between my skin, my...
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