Peculiar or was it a pelicula?
jeez
foreign language is like
a biltong sandwich
in that
it leaves a film
on your tongue.

Listening to the old Singer,
no
not her,
the sewing machine
soothing me to sleep,

I'll probably wake up
with a pair of curtains
stitched to my feet.

Mother had one too
then she got a new-fangled
knitting machine
not
my kind of thing,

I used to like hearing her knitting needles
clicking together knowing that soon
I'd get a new cardigan,

the machine itself was made in Taiwan,
that too has gone,

change is everywhere.

..and I was carried in the cradle
to the tower of Babel
and it was where I learnt
to speak in many tongues.

#random
them bible ting run
like the ray from de sun
and burn up yar man,

speak to me
in words I can hear and see
that is what it be.

getting ready to go is as far as I know
She fills in the details en route.

I have seen the setting of the sun in Dubai
and Mumbai before it became that name,
I met girls, the one with pearls for eyes
and was hypnotised,

baptised in the Ganges
for she is the mother
and now
I am still.

Show me
I asked her,
how dare you
She said,

later
in the bed
She said,
you dared.

clear
and as you can see
I'm here
getting older
every year

it doesn't suit me.