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Crossing Borders poets

Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship

A faded signboard
hung on our sagging fence
reads:

WE DIE FADED JEANS

but on the gate
instead hangs
an exhibit –
a threadbare napkin
soiled and holed
a flag of indigenous
entrepreneurship
waving our poverty
to passer-bys
Crossing Borders poets

Crossing Borders poets

(Zimbabwe, 2001)

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Entrepreneurship

A faded signboard
hung on our sagging fence
reads:

WE DIE FADED JEANS

but on the gate
instead hangs
an exhibit –
a threadbare napkin
soiled and holed
a flag of indigenous
entrepreneurship
waving our poverty
to passer-bys

Entrepreneurship

Sponsors
Gemeente Rotterdam
Nederlands Letterenfonds
Stichting Van Beuningen Peterich-fonds
Prins Bernhard cultuurfonds
Lira fonds
Versopolis
J.E. Jurriaanse
Gefinancierd door de Europese Unie
Elise Mathilde Fonds
Stichting Verzameling van Wijngaarden-Boot
Veerhuis
VDM
Partners
LantarenVenster – Verhalenhuis Belvédère