David Kapp, Belthorn Estate
There’s a library (there)
Our butcher local exclaims
somewhat rhetorically
an eyebrow raised
There’s a library there
(Moses Mabhida Library)
and for me it is scrabble
as is the usual
I collect an Athlone News
from the butchery local
to pass on out yonder
at the other end
out Khayelitsha-way
to where I taxi
buses being absent
There’s a library there
and Amr Salie greets me
from a poster advertising
World Book Day 2018
already young chess players
are playing their game
(their coach is in full swing)
There’s a library there
Moses Mabhida Library it is
(who remembers who knows
why the library is so named)
There’s a library there
(a busy buzz there is)
and I capture bookmarks
(READ LEARN GROW
@ your library they say)
blissfully I then scrabble away
with some youths willing
to make and create words
There’s a library there
A good time is had by all, out Site C Khayelitsha-way, April 21, 2018.