SIXTEEN OCCASIONAL POEMS

1990–2000

 

4 – SOUTH AFRICA APRIL 1994

Poem: Alasdair Gray © 2005

 

“we are richer, more real than you,”

said those who would not go away,

“Aim as well, push as hard as you can –

we stay deaf, unyielding, tell lies

until we make you make them come true.”

Your chance was they could not be, everywhere, the same.

 
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