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Uwanja kijiji ndani ya nyumba. Washangiliaji na wazomeaji wengi sana. Maswali mengi kama hayo Manung’uniko mengi kama hayo Matatizo mengi kama hayo sasa Yaonekana ingawa zamani hayakuwako. 24 • The Bedbug’s Song In case you don’t know it, human, marriage is a foul near the goal. The whistle has blown and the goal has no keeper, no one there, but the space between the posts is just a foot. Shoes: split; and the ball a block of cement. The field is a little hamlet inside the house; the cheerers, the jeerers: ever so many.
Children nervously await their time. There’s nothing in the garden except a certain sad wind that shakes the grass with a mournful sound. So this is polygamous rule. The tree in the city lies on the ground: useless now, hesitatingly cut down by its gardeners. There’s nothing in the room except a certain sad wind that rustles against some cunning folks encircling a bed and weeping. Hopeful tears announce the danger of bitterness at home. Bitterness among the women, bitterness among the children over possessions and power.
Nimeinama kichwa, karibu kama mjinga Karibu kama mwerevu. Kusoma siwezi, Kuandika siwezi. Nimeshindwa kujua Ninachojua. Lakini kitu hiki kama Nakiogopa kama sikiogopi. 22 • Problem It seems as if outside there’s darkness with light in it and inside there’s light with darkness in it and I sit in a place without light or dark. It’s as if I see that I don’t see. I’ve lowered my head: almost like a fool, almost like a sage. I can’t read and I can’t write. I can’t manage to know what I know. But if I fear this thing it’s as if I don’t fear it.