Status Updates From Nuestra hermana aguafiestas.

“Time by itself means nothing, no matter how fast it moves. Unless we give it something to carry for us; something we value”

AAA is very funny

“My brother, I have been to a land where they treat animals like human beings and some human beings like animals because they are not”

“She was to come to understand that such migrations are part of the general illusion of how well an unfree population think they can do for themselves. Running very fast just to remain where they are.”

“For she knew from one quick composite vision, that in a cold land, poverty shows as nowhere else. ”

Damn !

Now I’m sad, the Marja babe was really nice

“Seeing there are as many goodbyes as there are hellos, and we die with each separation”

Heavy on the why is food served cold part

“A love-nest in an attic that seems to be only a nest now, with love gone into mortgage and holiday hopes?”

“West Berlin –
As loud as a
Self-conscious whore at a
Gay last-night party
Aboard a sinking ship”

I screamed

“Mouldy Saxon cakes from
Mouldier Saxon dames ”

My bad, she’s funny

“Man does not live by
Gari or ugali alone –”

“And the Presidents and their
First Ladies
Govern from the North
Provence, Geneva, Milan …
Coming south to Africa
Once a year
For holidays”

Oh she’s dragging them

“Household quarrels of
Africa become a
WAR in
Nigeria:”

That line is very daisy saying she hopes her daughter is a beautiful fool core

“So why wish a curse on your child
Desiring her to be female
?”

“Love is always better when
Doomed …”

My bad the poems are kind of eating

“They were of a size, sheen and succulence she had not encountered anywhere else in those foreign lands.”

Ref: comment above

So far finding it odd. I don’t think I love the poetry randomly interspersed in the book. Also are the plums a euphemism for lesbianism?