Look, a gift horse
Look, a gift horse
Look a gift horse

Look,
a gift
horse

Look a gift horse
in the mouth
the natives might
as the civilizers
cometh

(manifestos charters
and shiny trinkets
promises and tenders
at hand to carve
their way)

Look, a gift horse
or don’t
look a gift horse
in the mouth

(don’t be rude
and ungrateful
you who have
infrastructure
and the like)

though that horse
might be a Trojan like
in Greek Mythology like
or Apartheid’s Massacre
on the Cape Flats like

Don’t look a gift horse

It might look you back
(in Afrikaaps-like)

Right back at you