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Dambudzo Marechera

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In the song
Are waterfruits;
In the plush and flow
Firestars eternally fixed.

Guitar strings lash
My back, draw blood –
The out of control voice
Skids shrieking across

Tarmac audiences.

Dambudzo Marechera

(Zimbabwe, 1952)

Dambudzo Marechera was born in Rusape to a poor family. However, he won scholarships to St Augustine’s Secondary School, to the University of Zimbabwe and to New College, Oxford. He has the distinction of having been expelled from all three.

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Punkpoem

In the song
Are waterfruits;
In the plush and flow
Firestars eternally fixed.

Guitar strings lash
My back, draw blood –
The out of control voice
Skids shrieking across

Tarmac audiences.

From: Cemetery of Mind, Buddy’s Selected Poems