Ghaap
Sonnets from the Northern Cape
by Michael Cope

Poetry

Rain
GHAAP
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1   Cave Man

See the cave-man in the case:

See his ugly bony face

And the way he bares his teeth,

Muscles bulging in relief.

See the blood around his feet:

Something that he’s killed to eat.

He’d like to eat you, if he could

Or hit you with his bit of wood.

If shove should ever come to push

He’d bash your face in, think it play.

Note, though, the sartorial way

A modest loin-cloth hides his tush:

The ancestor, or so they say
Of President George W Bush.