<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=392253" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>First night in Botswana</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I push Radio Botswana<br>It spills a kindergarten song<br>From the villages, call and response, <br>Into the hotel room</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A floor below, and down across the street<br>The band and beer, the discotheque</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But I have a newer freedom to support<br>To touch the fire-spikes of redden flower<br>To breath the heavy perfume<br>Of the blossom-trees<br>To sleep away in the desert<br>Woken by the bark of baboons like angry men<br>To watch the heron and the kingfisher<br>Near the dam of Molepolole</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Away from the carrion sound<br>Of bands and domestic dogs<br>Feasting on the meat of modernity: <br>Just a freedom of the carcass scraps<br>Wanted and denied for long.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The radio is guttural with the story<br>Of an ox left lonely in the kraal<br>And the bass sax from the floor below<br>Is out of tune with the one-string segaba<br>I wonder which music I like to hear<br>Writing to the calls and harmony<br>Of voices from the radio.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Frank+Bana">Frank Bana</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=392253" data-title="First night in Botswana de Frank Bana" data-description="I push Radio Botswana It spills a kindergarten song From the villages, call and response, Into the hotel room A floor below, and down across the street The band and beer, the discotheque But I have a newer freedom to support To touch the fire-s..."></div> </div> </div>

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