Comments on: Are you angry, or are you boring?

By: brazen

brazen — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 04:05:15 +0000

the anger is so thick it burns the back of my throat.
i hollow out my tongue
because words seem impalpable
i wrench open my hands
from their fists
to make them DO.something.anything
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and so they write this.
but does THIS make the cut?

By: Tweety

Tweety — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:58:59 +0000

Angry is too clear a word to describe how Zimbabwe currently makes me feel. I need to create a new word for this unique situation. Each day I have to wake up and tell myself to start all over again. I do try hard until the next person, who is depressed enough, voices out my exact feelings and the rotating frustration cycle starts again.

By: Fiona

Fiona — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:06:55 +0000

I am angry and I’m not even in zim to witness this first hand; how angry do you need to be TO DO SOMETHING?

By: catherine

catherine — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:25:12 +0000

I am angry. I am angry because l do not know what to tell my five year old every time she asks why we do not have bread. I am angry because every time l boil water to prepare formula for my 4 month old, l have to wonder if l am not poisoning my son because the water is evidently unclean and unsafe. I am angry because l find queueing and jostling for bread and everything else l need just to survive humiliating. I am angry because l have to work but all the things l need to live are somehow sold during working hours. I am angry because there does not seem to be an end in sight to this madness. I am angry.

By: Natasha

Natasha — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:40:35 +0000

Yeah, I’m pretty angry. I guess like they say, we Zimbas are just a scared lot. No one is really willing to risk being rained on by random falling baton sticks nor risk being a casualty in a much needed mass march to State house. Sometimes I just envy South Africans. Wonder how they mobilize each other toward a common cause…