Gladys Mendía 
Lesego Rampolokeng (1965, Soweto, South Africa). Poeta, dramaturgo, novelista, ensayista y cineasta.
WORD DOWN THE LINE
20 years in
Centuries down the line
The poets are hurting
The dreams’ corruption
Screams in the night and
The seams come apart in
Bill of Rights & Constitution
They hymen an apparition
Blac publishing radic nourishing
To Cry Rage in the Lie-Age
of pain’s lineage
Shame is the Blacker hues
Makhafula up to James Matthews
If I could sing
Daar’s kak in die land
(tune from the claws of satan
strummed behind the doors of parliament)
blood-tide rises with slaughter-current
march of the blackstorm
from no sanctuary in freedom
minds’ Molotov explosion
all the insurrection way back home
blood-splutter paint
on the cracked walls of the cranium
megawatts in the AMANDLA name
for the power-game
but) who’ll pay the bill of reparation
when what was stolen
is that which is Human
ridden from here to a mine-dump
the Richter registration
- of) worker ants & termites
marching on feet that are broken-
scales of justice
& peace hanging in the balance
of a snapped brainstem
democracy-scam
celebration of a sham
& THAT is my WORD down the LINE