Who gives a damn

WHO GIVES A DAMN

Five Rand here
Ten Rand there
Getting fucked
for a bar of chocolate
or a kota perhaps
WHO GIVES A DAMN
Barely sixteen
understanding not the situation
Is it sex?
Is it love?
Getting fucked for
the family’s daily bread
WHO GIVES A DAMN
Mama says
Umkwenyana wami
Because he brings groceries
now and then
and fucks the daughter
She gets HIV
gets pregnant
WHO GIVES A DAMN
Backyard abortion
missing death by a whisker
‘Umalume’ gets his turn
Then Hlatshwayo
the tavern owner
All for a packet of chicken pieces
Dead at seventeen
WHO GIVESA DAMN!