Oom Hennie
ʼn Lang man los ʼn lang skaduwee.
For the first day of the month-of-love, I’m sharing this old Afrikaans poem of mine, with a beautiful romantic twist in the end.
There was a time when I spent an inordinate amount of time on the road, and a lot of my writing reflects that.
Sometimes it’s a lot of fun to write pure comedy. Hierdie is een van daai komieklike stukke.
Eve – the mythical original rib-woman – gets a bad rap from misogynist bible-believers, and women have suffered for millennia because of the default-state low-level mental programming that comes from being indoctrinated into the nonsense that women are responsible for the fall of all mankind. Toe skryf ek daaroor…
As I sat down to write, I had three Afrikaans words come to mind. “Wrok. Wrak. Wraak.” From them a life and a world was born. A tragic one, it turns out.
I was pondering the sexual proclivity of a Piet-My-Vrou bird because, well, it seems to be confused with a name like “Piet” as its “Vrou”.
Unless it had some sort of procedure done that the MAGA crowd would rather not have anyone talk about…