FAROUK ASVAT

§ FAROUK ASVAT is a novelist, poet, translator & medical doctor, banned by the #apartheid regime. ● BE A REVOLUTIONARY!

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REGIME CHANGE IN SOUTH AFRICA
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THERE WAS NO REVOLUTION IN SOUTH AFRICA

FULL ARTICLE
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Only REGIME CHANGE, orchestrated by the USA, western regimes, mess media & multinationals with $billions exclusively for the ANC.

#southafrica #regime

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THE ZIONIST WALL © Farouk Asvat

The Zionist Wall is a living thing
It brings death to the people of Palestine
It comes with soldiers
That massacre grandfathers in the streets
It comes with bulldozers
That destroy grandmothers in their homes

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WAITING FOR MOHAMED ALI © Farouk Asvat

They did not gather for God
But for Mohamed Ali,
But it was the same thing,
It was like waiting for Godot

The excited crowd
Closed in on the mosque
Only to be technically knocked out
By his nonappearance

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THE DIRECTOR OF FUNERALS © Farouk Asvat

The shrewdest
smoothest
conman
in town
is the director of funerals

like an angel of death
he is always there
driving you to your death
in his green hearse

dressed in holy white cloth
and neatly trimmed beard

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MAJESTIC HAIRDRESSING SALOON © Farouk Asvat

The township comes to town
In their Saturday best
To a calendar full of foreign places
I have stopped dreaming of
Where it is still a wonder to behold
Amitabh Bhachan embracing Elizabeth Taylor

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#majestic

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FORDSBURG: from a corner © Farouk Asvat

We, the Guys at Jupiters,
On the corner of Mint and Bree,
Dream about dating saucy film stars
Driving posh cars
And playing soccer like magic;
While we go on chowing
The famous fish an' chips

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MRS SYBIL'S SYBILISMS © Farouk Asvat

My dustbin thinks he is so very indisposable
Now that he is on the threadmill after the heart attack -
He just doesn't want to take any irresponsibility anymore;
Already he had double ammonia

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#sybilisms

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THE POEM OF PLAYFUL WORDS © Farouk Asvat

My brother
From another mother
(And another father),
Last of last night
I told my mother's mother
That next of next week
My mother's daughter's son
The one after the one after this one ...

continued @ https://t.co/hheFyJPzyo

#playful

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REGIME CHANGE IN SOUTH AFRICA © FAROUK ASVAT
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THERE WAS NO REVOLUTION IN SOUTH AFRICA
- it was merely regime change as orchestrated by the USA, western regimes, western and local media, the multinationals, SA companies, and the ANC.

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I HEAR THE PAIN © Farouk Asvat

I hear the pain
Inside my stomach

It is a crying pain
A pulling pain
An a'cheing pain
Since the time of long ago

I hear him
Pulling on my vein
I hear him
Knocking on my brain
I hear him
Coming on the next train

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#pain

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DIRECTIONS TO HELL AND BEYOND © Farouk Asvat

● Directions From Bro' Biza in Josie
+
● Directions From Couzie-Bro' In Durban
+
● Directions From Ol' Pank In The Ol' Cape

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● #liberate #palestine
● #stop #genocide

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#hell

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OVER THE WALL AN' ALL © Farouk Asvat

What can do, Bro'?
My ma didn't grow me up so well
Feeding me tinfish-curry an' all
So I don't understand so good
What is going on here
With all this fancy politics an' all

Mandela has gone over the wall an' all

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BOSS! © Farouk Asvat

Boss! You got the car,
And the money, Boss!
And I, I got the fok'all.

We are not the Mandelas,
We only want a few cents
To buy the bread, my King,
'Cause my stomach he cries.

Ag please, Boss!
I wannabe jus' like the Mandelas:

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HEY! HEY! © Farouk Asvat

Hey! Hey!
Mandela is no god

Hayi! Hayi!
Mandela is no good

Hey! Hey!
We have a new class
Of boss boys

Hayi! Hayi!
We have a new class
Of parliament chiefs

Hey! Hey!
We now have the illusion
Of a revolution

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● #liberate

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BROTHER! © Farouk Asvat

'I know my job,
An' you know your job.
But you know what?
I'm going to eff you up!
You, together with your brother.'

"Who?
Me?
Me, I don't have a brother, me.
My brother is dead.
God is my brother.
An' he is also dead."

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THE DOCTOR GOT PRESSURE © Farouk Asvat

Oh Doctor
I got pressure
And also sugar,
And my sister too,
And my brother also
He also got sugar
And pressure
And liver
From drinking so much -
Cane and milk but.
Oh Ram!
What can do?
Won't listen to no one

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MINA GOT A CHILD © Farouk Asvat

Mina got a child
Without a man
Imaam Ali's blessings
An' God's benevolence

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+ #original #afrikaans slang version

paperback & kindle editions
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● #liberate #palestine
● #stop #genocide

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CERTIFICATES © Farouk Asvat

First she got 'er matric certificate
Then she got 'er marriage certificate
Then she got the birth certificate
Then she got the divorce certificate
All in one year, Auntie,
She is certified an' all

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#certificates

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THE (SILENT) NOISE OF SUMMER © Farouk Asvat

Summer has a different sound now
Of crickets that aren't there
Of breezes that do not blow.

Just the memory of water
dripping

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#liberate #palestine
#stop #genocide

#summer

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EVERYTHING I TOUCH © Farouk Asvat

Everything I touch
Bruises me

Everything that caresses me
Taints me
With the scent of death:

So much blood
Is wasted in youth
That cannot be gathered
Into the hands of wisdom

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#liberate #palestine
#stop #genocide