Travelling

Gary Cumminskey

We are sitting in a dark room, my cousins and I.
One of them produces a joint, so we smoke
it up furiously, eager to get high.
I am leaving for London at 8:45 this evening.
In London I will be living in a house
that I lived in while in Johannesburg as well.

You point out I have still not packed
my suitcases, nor arranged for my books and furniture
to be placed in storage.
How I can organise all this with so little time left?

You suggest I call the old man at the house in London,
and ask if I can store my furniture there.
I agree, and am ready to phone the old man
when I remember he has been dead for eight years.

You then suggest I call his widow, but after his death
she moved to the States, where she lives with her
religious daughter — the one who poses for erotic dreams.

There are really too many things to do
with the plane taking off in less than an hour.

LitNet: 13 May 2004

back    /     to the top

© Kopiereg in die ontwerp en inhoud van hierdie webruimte behoort aan LitNet, uitgesluit die kopiereg in bydraes wat berus by die outeurs wat sodanige bydraes verskaf. LitNet streef na die plasing van oorspronklike materiaal en na die oop en onbeperkte uitruil van idees en menings. Die menings van bydraers tot hierdie werftuiste is dus hul eie en weerspieël nie noodwendig die mening van die redaksie en bestuur van LitNet nie. LitNet kan ongelukkig ook nie waarborg dat hierdie diens ononderbroke of foutloos sal wees nie en gebruikers wat steun op inligting wat hier verskaf word, doen dit op hul eie risiko. Media24, M-Web, Ligitprops 3042 BK en die bestuur en redaksie van LitNet aanvaar derhalwe geen aanspreeklikheid vir enige regstreekse of onregstreekse verlies of skade wat uit sodanige bydraes of die verskaffing van hierdie diens spruit nie. LitNet is ’n onafhanklike joernaal op die Internet, en word as gesamentlike onderneming deur Ligitprops 3042 BK en Media24 bedryf.