3355,menory, family, South Africa

TYGERBERG

vacuum cleaner
sucking up dirt and fluff
absurdly early, not even
sure than it could
be called morning

from the kitchen
war
seems about to me
declared, easy to
deduce from
the manifest hostilty
openly expressed
in the friction and
firefights between
the pots and
the plans

a clash for the ages
all that was, peace and
domesticity
come clattering down

and so
thus chastized for
my laziness and hurled
into action
I boot up
this then state
of the art dos computer
read the green
dissertation text which
sadly, does not
show any inclination
to save my academic bacon
by writibg itself

big mistake this
returning home
for my sabbatical
to save a few pence

drive my way into Rondebosch
from out in the
lower white middle class
Afrikaans speaking
industrial suburbs

hoping
this will not
become an error
of truly epic, horrendous
proportions

first in
a long long line
of bad, wrong choices
I never
did resolve