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Two Feet

(In memory of a young boy run down on Bertha Avenue, Johannesburg, 1994)

Just two feet sticking out from below a grubby blanket.
Just two feet, naked to the world— a body flung out of its shoes by a
passing car.
The scurry of gesticulating police
officers slowing traffic; helpless
paramedics administering syringe needles to keep the spark from
extinguishing inside a shattered
body . . . white from impact . . . wet with fear.
All those passing by indignantly
stop and stare, or pass a hasty
glance over their shoulder as they hurtle toward a more discernable
destination, leaving behind
two feet,

that wave good-bye

 

to a heartless world.

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