Our Misspent Youth

Our misspent youth
as legend has it
wild oats sowed
(liberation before)

Our misspent youth
obliged
to listen
when
we speak

We
who might be
the
threat of a good example
a
gangster besuited
like
a politrickian or is it
the
other way round

Our misspent youth
the now-defunct Youth Commission
to the tune of R4.2 million
says the Auditor-Generals report

A newspaper article
right next door to a picture
of Aleida Guevara March
daughter of Che

Our misspent youth
alongside Che lives on
what a negation
of what he stood for

Our misspent youth
parents
shape (their) children
in
their own image
keeping
them on their own
straight
and narrow

Wild oats sowed
alongside obscene poverty
our
own Wa-Benzi flourishes
while Che lives on

What did we reap

Youth misspent R4.2m
A-G audit (Cape Argus, October 12 2009), sharing page-space with Ches daughter Aleida Guevara March, here with Camilo Guevara March as guests of FOCUS-SA  the Friends of Cuba Society.

- David Kapp, david_kapp@yahoo.com