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The Lonely South African

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If you’re South African, you’re probably alone. If you’re a nurse, overworked with someone else’ spit on your lips and HIV fears in your head – you’re alone. If you’ve only got a shack and sell bananas on a pavement, everything else is competition or oppression – you’re alone. If you’re a single mom working at McDonalds but your kids have no side fries and salad at home – you’re alone. If you’re rich, that doesn’t stop you being lonely. But that’s a different type of sad because you wouldn’t … Read the full article…

The truth may be bitter but sharing it is sweet!

Nobody loves you, you’re on your own

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Nobody loves you. They either love the idea of you or the you who became their idea. As soon as you’re a human being outside of the concept, they’ll tear you down. And that’s just your fans. Your enemies will follow like banshees biting on bone. There, at your weakest, you’ll realise that you’ve always been alone. That’s when you’ve got a choice to make. You can say whatever they want you to say so as to survive in the fakeness that is almost everything… to be forgiven, to rejoin … Read the full article…

The truth may be bitter but sharing it is sweet!

The Prize

Mike Hampton Posted on by

My mind would’ve seen you if my eyes were blind; the snatches of lipped smile and shouting breasts arresting me to the sexual swatting of fly and the ill-confident prayer for a mounting music where You and I compose the life and crowd Introduce rituals expected and enacted Exhibition saddles the safe of inhibition so that I’m visiting within you and you in me Discoveries in sweaty adult worded nothings granted respect by fleshy objects with strings The feeling floats that we’re bugs on blissing bloom and so committed are … Read the full article…

The truth may be bitter but sharing it is sweet!