Smiller’s Bar Revisited by Jack Mapanje

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No, how do you know they no longer seek what

Their hearts desire those girls at Smiller’s Bar?

Note how they sneer at your dawns & bonfires now


That you have accidentalized* their beloved

Combatants. And having known so many nebulous

Fleas, why shouldn’t they claim vague memories

Of your so-called liberation struggle? And in this

Feminist age, grant them revised metaphors, man!


You can’t be so sure your buttercups gather here

Only to scent down the few rebels their masters

(Mindless-brittle-neck-hackers!) still invent

For them and what nonsense, what paranoia!


It’s true at counters the masters lurch to your

Side, offering you round after round of beer,

Setting up their abandoned adulteresses for you

To settle on and enjoying their sadistic stories:

‘That rhinoceros you gunned down scratching

His livid wounds on pepperwood, wasn’t it fun


How he collapsed, twitching’, they laugh hoping

You can join in the joke & be properly convicted!

But you must concede, after you accidentalized

Their Anenenjis, the nuance of your classical

Butterfly today slips away & even you don’t know


Who the real master is when, from her creased

Victorian frock, she rectifies your change without

Blush & pontificates about inflation having

Trebled her price. Indeed why should anybody’s

Bastard at home eat grass? So, give the girls

A break, let the coloured bulbs, drunken moths

& robot drums choke the bay; who said freedom’s

Not a bifurcated pig? Revisiting Smiller’s Bar

May be the beginning of your true liberation!

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