Braamfontein Blues (after Bowery Blues by Jack Kerouac) by Olwanda Saphokazi Majozi

[tabby title="Poem"] I hardly left my room that whole year.It was meAnd the knife;A kettle,BibleAgoraphobic and contriteIn a campus towerIn ParktownLike some failed organ, rottingAt the centre ofA breathing,Beating thing It was universityIt was JohannesburgIt was eating a baby animal...