The New Monastics
This poem by Dennis Brutus was posted to Debate, a discussion list of the independent left in Southern Africa, today.
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 […]
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