GOWANUS
An International
Online Journal of Idea and Observation
Spring
1999
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What do Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
and Gideon Johannes Nieuwoudt
have in common? Hint: It's not remorse.
by
David Herman
(Republic
of South Africa)
*
Heavenly
Treatment
For
a Heavenly People
During our endless discussions there
was always one common thread--
Kosovo was sacred Serbian land and
Albanians
would have to be killed or
expelled.
by
Viktor Car
(Canada-Croatia)
*
The
Boli-Seller
A
Short Story
The boli-seller would arrive the
first Saturday of every month
and settle down on our doorstep,
wiping the sweat
from his forehead with his turban.
by
Vallath Nandakumar
(India)
*
Growing
Up with Tobago
We set up our tent in a field in
the Crown Point area near to a tap,
cooked over a fire, lay about in
the sun or in the cool of the tent,
all of us thoroughly and meditatively
stoned.
by
Anthony Milne
(Trinidad &
Tobago)
*
DALIT
LITERATURE:
The
Voice of the Downtrodden
They carry brooms tied to their bodies
so that
they can wipe away their footprints.
by
Razi Abedi
(Pakistan)
*
London
Through the Magic Eye
Even more curious
is the schism between what the British
see of the
real world and what of the world is transmitted to them: No
inhibitions
at being examined at length, but a certain coolness at examining
others' lives in such detail.
by
Raymond Ramcharitar
(Trinidad &
Tobago)
*
Another
Day
A
Short Story
I think about Latha. When was the
last time I saw her naked?
It is more than two years since we
made love.
by
S. Anand
(India)
*
Poem
Something poetic
there is about train tracks.
by
Raymond Ramcharitar
(Trinidad
& Tobago)
*
And
So It Came to Pass
And when He
left, it was not sitting on the toilet of His Tennessee mansion,
stomach
cramping, eyes blurring, but blindfolded and alone before a
CIA-sponsored
firing squad, convicted of teaching school children how to read
both
Spanish and English texts.
by
Holly Day
(United States of
America)
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