{"id":10524,"date":"2020-01-22T15:16:34","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T15:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistaidees.cat\/lebo-mashile-malucs-que-han-carregat-pedres\/"},"modified":"2020-03-05T21:59:59","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T21:59:59","slug":"lebo-mashile-malucs-que-han-carregat-pedres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistaidees.cat\/en\/lebo-mashile-malucs-que-han-carregat-pedres\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebo Mashile: These hips have carried boulders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><br>Body<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Beyond water and bones\u00a0\u00a0<br>Beyond blood and\u00a0breath\u00a0\u00a0<br>The body is the soul\u2019s physical address\u00a0\u00a0<br>We are light cocooned in skin\u00a0<br>Sun children growing\u00a0\u00a0<br>In the universe\u2019s womb\u00a0\u00a0<br>Each of us is a star draped in human form\u00a0\u00a0<br>Our bodies are God\u2019s couture\u00a0\u00a0<br>Fleshy fabric dripping colour and culture\u00a0\u00a0<br>On a cosmic catwalk\u00a0\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>This body is too much for too many\u00a0\u00a0<br>And not enough to be right\u00a0\u00a0<br>for\u00a0those left to decide what beauty is\u00a0\u00a0<br>TV and magazines do not understand the symmetry between design and purpose\u00a0\u00a0<br>A masterfully crafted machine created to serve as witness to our evolution\u00a0\u00a0<br>All that we are\u00a0\u00a0<br>All that we have been\u00a0<br>All that we can and will ever\u00a0be\u00a0\u00a0<br>Is housed in a sanctuary of skin\u00a0\u00a0<br>No thought escapes the body\u00a0<br>No emotion eludes the body\u00a0\u00a0<br>This is my home\u00a0\u00a0<br>My transport\u00a0\u00a0<br>My support\u00a0\u00a0<br>My friend\u00a0\u00a0<br>So when the world renounces by beauty\u00a0\u00a0<br>I reply, the landscape of the body cannot be seen by the eye\u00a0\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>My skin knows me by heart\u00a0\u00a0<br>When I laugh thunder rumbles remixing pain into song\u00a0\u00a0<br>Moonstones sparkle in my smile\u00a0\u00a0<br>And I know that I need the darkness as much as it needs be to be a star\u00a0\u00a0<br>And when I cry\u00a0rain falls\u00a0from my eyes\u00a0\u00a0<br>Never touching the ground\u00a0\u00a0<br>My waters\u00a0dissappear\u00a0to join the air\u00a0\u00a0<br>And I know that my heart is everywhere\u00a0\u00a0<br>The roads in my face will tell you\u00a0\u00a0<br>That I have withstood sand storms\u00a0\u00a0<br>And held the eye of the hurricane\u00a0\u00a0<br>with\u00a0my stare\u00a0\u00a0<br>These arms have hugged the wind\u00a0\u00a0<br>These hips have carried boulders\u00a0\u00a0<br>Birthed new life and blessed the gaze of their beholders\u00a0\u00a0<br>This heart is a rock\u00a0\u00a0<br>Melting when moved\u00a0\u00a0<br>Solidifying in sorrow\u00a0\u00a0<br>This mind is mining gems for\u00a0\u00a0<br>Whose brilliance courses through oceans\u00a0\u00a0<br>To wash up on the river beds of the worthy\u00a0\u00a0<br>Work is my domain\u00a0\u00a0<br>Beauty is my inheritance\u00a0\u00a0<br>Skin is my shelter\u00a0\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>When I love I give all that I am\u00a0<br>Four barrels of water\u00a0\u00a0<br>Three slices of fire\u00a0\u00a0<br>Two pounds of earth\u00a0\u00a0<br>Bound together by air in a house of skin\u00a0\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>There is love in washing over experiences\u00a0\u00a0<br>There is love in offering libations\u00a0\u00a0<br>at\u00a0the altar of the self\u00a0\u00a0<br>There is love in these hands\u00a0\u00a0<br>Inhale beauty\u00a0\u00a0<br>Exhale discipline\u00a0\u00a0<br>Inhale sun\u00a0\u00a0<br>Exhale African\u00a0<br>Inhale memory\u00a0\u00a0<br>Exhale touch\u00a0\u00a0<br>Inhale protection\u00a0\u00a0<br>Exhale Love\u00a0 <br><br><br><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><br> Vulva Volcanoes<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">\u201cWe are the grand-daughters of the witches they did not burn\u201d\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>1.<br>What indestructible substance is a woman's heart made\u00a0of\u00a0<br>The heart must be a vulva\u00a0\u00a0<br>Bleeding\u00a0\u00a0<br>Stretching\u00a0\u00a0<br>Contracting\u00a0<br>Connecting\u00a0\u00a0<br>Fertile\u00a0\u00a0<br>Infertile\u00a0\u00a0<br>Birthing\u00a0\u00a0<br>Dying with each orgasm, lost lover and unborn child\u00a0<br>life\u00a0hands us these hearts\u00a0\u00a0<br>Without insurance\u00a0\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>At the heart of owning property\u00a0is owning\u00a0women\u00a0\u00a0<br>Neither land nor sky nor sea\u00a0\u00a0<br>animal\u00a0plant patent nor crown can be owned\u00a0\u00a0<br>Without conquering pussy\u00a0\u00a0<br>Once we made love and children\u00a0\u00a0<br>As the seasons make rains and harvests\u00a0\u00a0<br>Unowned\u00a0we worshipped wind stones blood moon and stories\u00a0\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>Respectability &amp; forgiveness are concepts sold to niggers &amp; women\u00a0\u00a0<br>So that we do not question why we do not have power\u00a0\u00a0<br>With the same ferocity with which power is taken from us every waking day\u00a0\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>There is a cross burning between your legs\u00a0\u00a0<br>They sell Jesus as a placebo\u00a0\u00a0<br>As if a revolutionary would ever endorse Pay-as-you-go churches\u00a0\u00a0<br>Or the asinine bullshit done daily in God's name\u00a0\u00a0<br>You die slowly making life easy for what is killing you.\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>2.\u00a0<br>This is not the motherhood of pink &amp; blue ribbons and fluffy toys\u00a0\u00a0<br>This is not an ad with women who worry more about washing powder than they do about finances\u00a0\u00a0<br>This is not an exaltation of asexual mammies who only know dicks in darkness that won't claim them in daylight\u00a0\u00a0<br>I am not a\u00a0nurse maid\u00a0whore teacher quasi-spiritual, quarter-to-ape with loving maternal instincts who will slowly comfort you into truths you cannot accept\u00a0\u00a0<br>How long have you been fucking your\u00a0mother\u00a0\u00a0<br>Sideways\u00a0\u00a0<br>Over and above\u00a0\u00a0<br>The myths told to girl children\u00a0\u00a0<br>Through baby dolls that never cry\u00a0\u00a0<br>And\u00a0barbies\u00a0who breed without genitals\u00a0\u00a0<br>I waited for Prince Charming to save me for so long I forgot to be my own hero\u00a0\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>I will raise my children to believe in opposites\u00a0\u00a0<br>If you love yourself they will hate you\u00a0\u00a0<br>If you can live in their world you are dying\u00a0\u00a0<br>If you chase their approval you will hate yourself\u00a0\u00a0<br>If he hits you\u00a0\u00a0<br>Hurts you\u00a0\u00a0<br>Hurls your heart against the wall\u00a0<br>It's because he does not understand the relationship between blood and consequences\u00a0\u00a0<br>It's not your job to teach him\u00a0\u00a0<br>No one claps for martyrs\u00a0\u00a0<br>They'll build a shrine on your pain and say they did it in your name\u00a0\u00a0<br>Rather go mad\u00a0\u00a0<br>Because this 3-D world is just an asylum for truth tellers<br><br><br><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><br>The Void<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">What happens to black\u00a0boys\u00a0\u00a0<br>Who go\u00a0missing\u00a0\u00a0<br>Do we even call it\u00a0missing\u00a0\u00a0<br>Or do we just say he is gone\u00a0\u00a0<br>What happens to\u00a0boys\u00a0\u00a0<br>Who hide in their\u00a0minds\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br>Who run across\u00a0borders\u00a0\u00a0<br>Who live in\u00a0dimensions\u00a0\u00a0<br>That should have remained\u00a0\u00a0<br>In the womb\u00a0\u00a0<br>What happens to\u00a0boys\u00a0<br>Who are\u00a0unwanted\u00a0\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>What happens to the\u00a0boys\u00a0\u00a0<br>Who learned to die inside their\u00a0skin\u00a0\u00a0<br>The day they learned what their fathers had done to their mothers\u00a0\u00a0<br>What their mothers had done to themselves\u00a0\u00a0<br>What they were made of\u00a0\u00a0<br>Pain like a\u00a0rubics\u00a0cube\u00a0\u00a0<br>Changing face but not form\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>Teaching boys to pray to god\u00a0\u00a0<br>every\u00a0time they get a hard on\u00a0\u00a0<br>Makes boys who will bomb themselves\u00a0\u00a0<br>For virgins in heaven\u00a0\u00a0<br>Teaching boys to lie to girls\u00a0\u00a0<br>Every time their get a hard on\u00a0\u00a0<br>Makes boys who bomb girls\u00a0\u00a0<br>Makes earth a hellish heaven\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>Gaia is a woman getting raped by her own kids\u00a0\u00a0<br>Every day\u00a0\u00a0<br>Her pussy is Centre of hurricanes\u00a0\u00a0<br>Not the eye\u00a0\u00a0<br>Crosses and bones\u00a0\u00a0<br>At the bottom of the sea\u00a0\u00a0<br>Are\u00a0people\u00a0\u00a0<br>We call foreigners\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br>When the gifted enter the sea\u00a0\u00a0<br>They find their own\u00a0\u00a0<br>Ready to teach them\u00a0\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>You refuse\u00a0\u00a0<br>Your identity as water\u00a0\u00a0<br>Teachers rise\u00a0\u00a0<br>claim\u00a0your streets as oceans\u00a0<br>Wash your cities in fire\u00a0\u00a0<br>mines\u00a0stop menstruating\u00a0\u00a0<br>the\u00a0sky won't release her tides\u00a0\u00a0<br>we\u00a0wake up\u00a0\u00a0<br>Inside the same day\u00a0\u00a0<br>The long death past a noose\u00a0\u00a0<br>The morning\u00a0godlight\u00a0is just a show\u00a0\u00a0<br>With a sponsor\u00a0\u00a0<br>Who is paying for the sun to show up every\u00a0day\u00a0\u00a0<br>If that nigga works for free\u00a0\u00a0<br>Then fuck him\u00a0\u00a0<br>Because I can't\u00a0<br>Who will feed the\u00a0babies\u00a0\u00a0<br>And the corpses that tend to them\u00a0\u00a0<br>Like a man\u00a0\u00a0<br>The sun shows up, demands applause\u00a0\u00a0<br>And leaves everyone else to deal with the night\u00a0\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>We stopped touching dirt\u00a0\u00a0<br>They started touching me\u00a0\u00a0<br>They say let go of your story\u00a0\u00a0<br>But first you have to know it is there\u00a0\u00a0<br>In the blood and in the body\u00a0\u00a0<br>In the food\u00a0\u00a0<br>In the sea\u00a0\u00a0<br>In the goddess that is fighting a war in me\u00a0\u00a0<br>In the twisted asana\u00a0\u00a0<br>In the depth of shame\u00a0\u00a0<br>In the wailing birds that give songs their names\u00a0\u00a0<br>In the knotted hairs\u00a0\u00a0<br>In the wild untamed\u00a0\u00a0<br>In the peace beyond pleasure\u00a0\u00a0<br>At the water's edge<br><br><br><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Body Beyond water and bones\u00a0\u00a0Beyond blood and\u00a0breath\u00a0\u00a0The body is the soul\u2019s physical address\u00a0\u00a0We are light cocooned in skin\u00a0Sun children growing\u00a0\u00a0In the universe\u2019s womb\u00a0\u00a0Each of us is a star draped in human form\u00a0\u00a0Our bodies are God\u2019s couture\u00a0\u00a0Fleshy fabric dripping colour and culture\u00a0\u00a0On a cosmic catwalk\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0This body is too much for too many\u00a0\u00a0And not enough to be right\u00a0\u00a0for\u00a0those left to decide what beauty is\u00a0\u00a0TV and 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