hillbrow’s song and 2 other poems

we unzip our dirty minds
to blast the thick & glistening
thighs of hillbrow

we salivate at the juicy
sarah baartman’s
& naomi campbell’s 
of the night

we loudly dance
shaku shaku
kwasa kwasa
sigide sishaye ne ndlamu

before the ladies of the night
take us up to their rooms
one by one
one by one
just to pay for a one-minute pee

it doesn’t matter
if you are a zulu or igbo
afrika unite
in the name of kuku here

so, welcome to our hillbrow
where decaying & filthy streets
house homeless junkies
in funky clothes

& my brother from another mother
breaks bread with cops
will crime ever stop
in this city?

i lie down next you
with my starving lips
trembling

& the blue lagoons
of your eyes
tempting
& alluring

how
do i escape the big
pumpkins that sprout
on your warm chest

how do i escape
from the beauty
of your tenderness

& how do i escape from
the milky lane
prison
of your arms

when fire
burns beautifully
between your thighs 

how do you kill
a stench of a man burnt
into ashes