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Let Me Remove the Log in Your Eye Poem

0 Let Me Remove the Log in Your Eye Abram Mahlaba

You live a life of grandeur And enjoy flaunting your sleek coupé, But you forgot the precarious latrine Waiting to be swallowed by a sinkhole at your mother’s; Your mother’s shanty doesn’t smell of roses But a squalid odour, which now perturbs The breath under your nose; You say my sisters are dirty and loose, […]

By Abram Mahlaba
In Poetry

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