All poems and stories

  • These are the days, a poem

    Every week has the same number of days. These days have the same names and occur in the same sequence. These days are equally long. People pack the same activities into these days. They all go to work at the same time and take lunch at the same time. They go home at the same…

  • Michael and Michele

    Michele was conceived against her mother’s will. The rapist kept the woman for five days in his run-down single wide. She used a Home Depot bucket for a toilet, careful to not knock it over with the chain padlocked to her left ankle. Another bucket with water was for drinking and washing. On the sixth…

  • Hoekom

    Hoekom stink ‘n poep so sterk in die kerk,en hoekom slaap ek die lekkerste by die werk?Hoekom is ons so haastig om groot te word,net om later te kla dit is sommer stront!Hoekom is ‘n grap so vreeslik snaaks wanneer vertel in ‘n klas of by ‘n begrafplaas?Hoekom word tyd en gesond gemors deur die…

  • Hans and Sabine, life is a dream

  • Life or Death?, a poem

    Life! Just do it. Make stuff. Break stuff. Move, think, create, destroy. Experience pain and joy. Waste as little of it as possible. Our time is limited, don’t let others make it more so. I don’t believe religion’s lie, eventually everything alive will die,with not a clue what’s on the other side,this I believe to…