Not That We Scoff

Not that we scoff
at the lesser spenders
in the Cape Colony
says a talking head

Not that we scoff
as the mugger city wins
another tourism award

(And we saw the launch
of Human Trafficking
Awareness Week and
the month of Red October)

Not that we scoff
it all counts
it all adds up
for the local economy

Not that we scoff
at the informal end
our second economy
(each according to ability)

Like Nomsa Mazwais lower
storey of the 2-storey house
in the trickle-down economy
of very rich and very poor

Not that we scoff

Misusing the double storey analogy, courtesy of Nomsa Mazwais Ebony and Ivory from her Little Girl collection (University of Fort Hare Press, 2008), after a radio news report that the Colony of the Cape has won some preferred destination tourism award, the weekend of 4 October 2009.

- David Kapp, david_kapp@yahoo.com