The following is a response to a set of posts on a left mailing list (other authors’ names are not specified). The quoted passages at the beginning are in response to the previous passage(s).
The original question raised:
Since I am 1) female and 2) bisexual, I wonder if guys on the list could explain to me […]
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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