Non-Erotic PoetryUnkulunkuluAnno Domini 1901
In a pit the Trekboers made him dig,
Bandele glared at a calamine chin
behind a breech loading Remington
above which Unkulunkulu rose
from a fetid swamp in Zululand
as a swarm of ancestral fathers
to canker tonight the jungle sweat
of farmers who pray to their Jesus Christ
under holey mosquito nets
that he kill all the snakes in paradise.
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So Trekboers used to force their Zulu captives / servants / slaves ? to dig in swamps & tribal sacred
Grounds or swamps @ the wrong end of a loaded Remington ( Typewriter MNC used to make guns in 1901 ?)
Thnx for tge info GM : did'nt have to Google . 5-ed.
To the reader who sent me the e-mail:
Calamine lotion, which dries to a pink powder, was how one would treat sunburn back then. The Trekboers, who were of Dutch stock, of course, were very fair-skinned. Unkulunkulu was the chief Zulu God who would send animals to earth to do his bidding.more...
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