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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=400008" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Two toddlers in the municipal park</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(in answer to Elisabeth Eybers) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Naked next to each other<br>two black toddlers are left</div><div style="margin:10px 0">with a wormed small maleness<br>and a exposed female groove<br>and with wiggling legs they walk on</div><div style="margin:10px 0">to where the canal of a dilapidated stream meanders<br>and where at time ducks or swans may have been, <br>there now are only empty concrete furrows, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">as if a dark power holds the park, the town, the country, <br>the whole continent in its gigantic claws<br>and everything is declining, <br>is being broken down into pieces on a gigantic rubbish pile</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and they look at a blue headed lizard<br>that lies and baking in the sun<br>and stare inquisitive at a few rock-lizards<br>that crawl one after the other from their trenches, <br>like soldiers with coordinated movements</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and when a snake appears suddenly, <br>they look at it in wonder<br>when it strikes at both the lizards<br>before it devours them</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and she - the small girl- grabs tightly onto the boy's hand<br>to draw him still nearer to the vermin<br>that perceives them both and rocks hissing back<br>and looks at the two with deadly seriousness<br>and with desperate power the boy jerks her back, <br>away from the thing that he perceives as danger</div><div style="margin:10px 0">before they both burst out in tears<br>and run back with wiggling legs<br>to the shadow of a tree<br>where mom and dad lies stretched out on a blanket<br>next to two empty brandy bottles<br>that gleams in the bright sunlight</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and beyond the stonewall of the park<br>an expensive German car passes, <br>are followed by two pickup trucks<br>and a horde of minibus taxis<br>are parked next to the municipal park, <br>with music blaring deafening<br>and a group of teenagers climb out of one</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and he wants to walk into that direction<br>as a member of the collective wildness<br>but she is caught by his strange small snake<br>that rocks to and fro with each step that he takes</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and when the teenagers become aware of the children<br>it appears as if they have far too much interest in them<br>and maybe it's the last day of danger, <br>or maybe some captured childhood days</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and they may be molested <br>somewhere next to the road, <br>be disfigured, cut up, <br>for witchdoctor medicinal use<br>and thrown out of a taxi-buss</div><div style="margin:10px 0">or it may only be amusing<br>to see two stark naked children.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The snake returns well-fed <br>to the hole from where it comes, <br>and the two toddlers are astonished<br>by one of the teenagers<br>who hides beyond a mask.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>[Reference: &quot;Twee kleuters in die vondelpark&quot; (Two children in the wander park) by Elisabeth Eybers.]</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>
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Naked next to each other
two black toddlers are left

with a wormed small maleness
and a exposed female groove
and with wiggling legs they walk on

to where the canal of a dilapidated stream meanders
and where at ..."></div>
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