<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=398614" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Johannesburg 1965</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">As a baby barely able to walk, <br>I walked in the long corridors<br>of the apartment block that belonged to us<br>pulling-pulling on the big collie dog</div><div style="margin:10px 0">that was smiling at me all the time<br>and wanted to lick me in my face, <br>taking a broom<br>I held the handle against my head</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and when I slipped and fell<br>my whole forehead was cleft open<br>with blood pouring out<br>as if from a fountain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One afternoon I got hold of the shoe polish<br>smearing my face full of Nugget<br>and I looked like dear old Sofie<br>and she laughed with white teeth <br>while cleaning my face, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">carried me to the top floor<br>where we looked out on De Bergen Street<br>seeing trams passing hopping on the tracks<br>and the passing people dumbfounded me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some of the Portuguese tenants<br>called me “bambino, ”<br>giving me Marie-biscuits<br>and green, purple and black olives</div><div style="margin:10px 0">while they stroked through my hair<br>and still I am wondering<br>if they were longing<br>for their children and wives in Portugal?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</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=398614" data-title="Johannesburg 1965 de Gert Strydom" data-description="As a baby barely able to walk, I walked in the long corridors of the apartment block that belonged to us pulling-pulling on the big collie dog that was smiling at me all the time and wanted to lick me in my face, taking a broom I held the handl..."></div> </div> </div>

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