David Kapp, Gatesville
We are free
is the declaration
from a caller
to morning radio
We are free
the caller going
on in the usual
black / white
white / black way
has the caller not
been freed yet
from our cataloguing
(not helped of course
by our official forms
and officialdom too)
We are free
again
once more
one more time
(just one time more)
but are we
unshackled
liberated
released
from the hangers-on
the yes-men and yes-women
who hawk and trade still
a long time coming
a long time in its coming
a long time to get here
but where are we
are we where
we wanted to be
before all of this started
A caller to SAFM radio’s 8am to 9am show is a trifle magnanimous, post-Zuma and all that.
