The New Monastics
by Dennis Brutus
Tall black-shadowed cypresses
slender beside arcaded cloisters:
thus were monastic enterprises: now with our new doctrines
secular-consumerist we bend
with similar devoutness in service
to our modern pantheon -
Bretton Woods, its cohort deities
- World Bank, IMF, WTO -
diligently we recite
“We have loved, o lord, the beauty of your house
and the place where your glory dwells”
“Amen” we chorus in unison
as ordered by our Heads of State
obediently we traipse to our slaughterhouse
directed by our Judas-goats
Mbeki’s herds tricked out in shabby rags
discarded by imperialist gauleiters
who devised our Nepad subjugation
– ActionAid Economic Justice course, Kenyan School of Monetary Studies in Nairobi, November 26, 2007
* First posted earlier today on DEBATE, ‘… a listserve that attempts to promote information and analyses of interest to the independent left in South and Southern Africa.’ Photo Credit: BookPhotoSA‘s Victor Dlamini.
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