BAREFOOT BROWN KIDDIES

Poet’s Note : Robertson & Ashton are two small wine producing towns in the Karoo of South Africa. Robertson is known as the Town of Roses & Wine because it is exceedingly beautiful, yet the wealth discrepancies between the farm owners & their workers remain vast, even to this day. I worked on a small fruit farm in Robertson managing a guesthouse & witnessed extreme dualities between rich & poor. BAREFOOT BROWN KIDDIES The road from a town of Roses and Wine to its little sister Ashton is littered with brown barefoot kiddies eating Niknaks Pappas remain addicted to Lieberstein Mamas continue to slave in guest houses blond boss ladies do their hair or paint nails purple a Makarov and it’s bullets are memories in the Dust of Fate Robertson farms remain governed by pale males Ashton fields despondent in colonial clutches of wealth they continue to concoct “Best Reds in the World” some drink that new bourgeoisie refine their taste buds with when struggle days are long gone nonchalant barefoot brown kiddies run annual races from Ashton to Robertson ignorant of good food or any vote achieved Neither am I happy or sad ©GhairoDanielsPoetry 2011