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What Is It...? by
In awe I salute The Delta Congress Through its splendid website For a matchless intellectual African voice. A phoenix has risen Apparently effortless To leave the BBC and CNN gasping. Will African intellectuals Develop a superiority complex? The US is vulgar, Russia shambolic, Britain full of has-beens And China an enigma. Africa has been devastated Yet is eternally fresh, Virginal and innocent And will conquer Euro-disease Euro-corruption, Euro-bullshit. From holocaust ashes The Delta peoples, Defiant and smiling With well-springs of steel And good manners, Forgive our trespasses. God damn! What is it with these Delta people? (Bradford-on-Avon, February 2001) - - - - - Harry Smith e-mail: hsmith@libertas.demon.co.uk |