Анализ сайта groundwork.worpress.com
Основное Готовность: 75%
Домен
groundwork.worpress.com
Состояние доменного имени
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Проверяем корректность доменного имени и наличие технических проблем на уровне домена.
Используйте для продвижения только домен второго уровня.
Длина домена велика. Но если вы продвигаете запрос, входящий в название домена, то это хорошо.
Ответ сервера
200 Успешный ответ
HTTP-код ответа и цепочка редиректов
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Код 200 — страница доступна. Коды 3xx — редиректы (цепочки замедляют загрузку и размывают ссылочный вес). Коды 4xx/5xx — ошибки, поисковик не сможет проиндексировать страницу.
Сервер настроен корректно.
Цепочка редиректов:
http://groundwork.worpress.com
301 MovedPermanently
https://groundwork.wordpress.com/
200 OK
Безопасность
Сайт безопасен
Использование HTTPS и SSL-сертификат
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HTTPS — обязательный стандарт. Google и Яндекс отдают предпочтение защищённым сайтам. Отсутствие SSL или просроченный сертификат ведут к предупреждениям в браузере и снижению позиций.
На сайте работает защищенный протокол ssl и сайт открывается по https.
Ssl-сертификат действителен до 26.09.2026 19:49:58.
Включён HSTS (Strict-Transport-Security) — защита от подмены на http.
HTTP автоматически перенаправляется на HTTPS.
Поздравляем! Сайт не содержится в реестре РКН.
Кодировка
UTF-8
Кодировка символов страницы
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Стандарт — UTF-8. Неправильная кодировка вызывает нечитаемые символы и мешает поисковику корректно распознать текст страницы.
Указана кодировка на странице UTF-8.
Язык
en
Атрибут lang в HTML-теге
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Атрибут lang (<html lang="ru">) сообщает поисковикам и браузерам, на каком языке написана страница. Помогает при ранжировании в региональном поиске.
Язык документа указан явно: en.
Скорость загрузки
~0,67сек
Время отклика сервера (TTFB)
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Time To First Byte — время до получения первого байта от сервера. Норма до 200 мс. Медленный отклик ухудшает пользовательский опыт и ранжирование: Яндекс и Google учитывают скорость страниц.
Скорость загрузки сайта 0,67сек оптимальна.
Объем документа
183Кб
Размер HTML-кода страницы
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Слишком большой HTML замедляет парсинг браузером и сканирование поисковым роботом. Рекомендуется не более 200 Кб.
Объем html-документа 183Кб оптимален.
Структура html-документа корректна.
Ресурсы
Ресурсы: 12
Внешние ресурсы страницы (CSS, JS, изображения)
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Количество и тип подключённых ресурсов влияют на скорость загрузки. Большое число запросов увеличивает время рендеринга страницы.
Кол-во файлов ресурсов 12 много для одной страницы. Приемлемо до 10. Проведите оптимизацию файлов ресурсов!
Показать полный список ресурсов
| Тип | Название | Значение |
|---|---|---|
| stylesheet | text/css | /_static/??-eJx9jt0KwjAMhV/IGqeDXYnP0nWxxqY/rCljb283mSDKbgIn+c45gSkpE4NgEPBFJS6WQoaJBouSAUu9RkeoWE8g6BNrwQxZZsajyfkA/wOYXMWeKEkbp1b1g/cc7cfg9ehQKFjV6xEq+r3Z69pa3hp8jMsYCtcPKNwpkKDKZozMm5738jYG5IG+ZqTSw4r5JIvv5q9N13Vtc7qc2+cLQHF5Bw==&cssminify=yes |
| stylesheet | text/css | /_static/??-eJx9jUsOwjAMRC+EY6UgCAvEWZrEKoG4jWq3hduTLvisurFG1nszuBQIQ6/UK5Y8dakXDIPPQ3gINsY6Y0ESl0ww0mwOGJPolwDRVyYTRHb4V8QT/LpGqn8ura4EU0wtZeKKbWlLih1p1eWTQem5rZQ6A96XkUSgXk4Tg97qlqzelS/26KzbN835dH8DjlpbIA==&cssminify=yes |
| stylesheet | text/css | /_static/??-eJx9i0EOgzAMBD/UYAUQVQ+It0Bk0lROHMWOEL+HcqKX3nZWM7Bl4zgpJgV9Y0SBXBe4rpgVRHfCxok84GbGajJVH5JAwYXYn9PDad3wX+SRDbGbNXD6AbPSHMo3neJon70dXl3XDp8D02g9qg==&cssminify=yes |
| stylesheet | text/css | /wp-content/mu-plugins/global-print/global-print.css?m=1465851035i&cssminify=yes |
| stylesheet | text/css | /_static/??-eJyNjcEKAjEMRH/ImhVlqwfxU6TbhrZrmhTTIv69u+JFvHgZ5sHwBh7VeOGG3KB0U6nHzAoztur87cNQRNYInVBBk7tjcCE83zVz3HrVDfxvumb2MPVMAVR8dmRIougX/DhbwrK8pwNEksnROriU884e9+PJDnaYXxwFS20=&cssminify=yes |
| stylesheet | text/css | /_static/??-eJydjtEKwjAMRX/IGrYh7kX8FKltGN3SpjQpY3+/DZyPor6EnMvlJDBn4zgpJoVYTaY6hCQwombrphdDZN6Hr4QCc/ADqoByNpll20QXwrMTOcH3ukdIDp7EbtoEc8hYfjUcDzlbuArSu3QE/wo1EHozWCIsyyfaD9zjrbn2l7btuqYfV8Rqfu8=&cssminify=yes |
| js | text/javascript | /_static/??/wp-content/js/rlt-proxy.js,/wp-content/blog-plugins/wordads-classes/js/cmp/v2/cmp-non-gdpr.js?m=1780567333j |
| js | text/javascript | /_static/??-eJydjMEOgjAQRH/IsgFi5GL8FFPaFRe2W2RbiX8vB1DjwYPHefNmYB6Ni5JQErQcOzNy7kgU5jh569U4tqqo0C/IJjb3quh1Bx+zkN8j8h0mBcxLGwdCw3aGhGFkm/CL//hhGhb7ljHj1YpnnH7IPabRumHNEGIUOJM4aDOxB5ILCSU06qbIvOVHEUj+f3V2ilmRX94G1ttTOJaHZl9VdV02/RPGN4W/ |
| js | /wp-content/mu-plugins/jetpack-plugin/moon/_inc/build/tiled-gallery/tiled-gallery/tiled-gallery.min.js?m=1755006225i&ver=16.2-a.2 | |
| js | text/javascript | /_static/??/wp-content/mu-plugins/jetpack-plugin/moon/_inc/build/sharedaddy/sharing.min.js,/wp-content/mu-plugins/carousel-wpcom/carousel-wpcom.js?m=1786736522j |
| js | //stats.wp.com/w.js?69 | |
| js | /wp-content/js/bilmur.min.js?i=17&m=202634 |
Серверные заголовки
Кол-во: 12
HTTP-заголовки ответа сервера
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Заголовки сервера передают браузеру и поисковику служебную информацию: кеширование, безопасность (CSP, HSTS), сжатие (gzip). Правильная настройка ускоряет загрузку и повышает защищённость.
Найдены серверные заголовки 12шт. Подробнее про серверные заголовки.
Показать полный список серверных заголовков
| Ключ | Значение |
|---|---|
| Server | nginx |
| Date | Sat, 22 Aug 2026 06:05:45 GMT |
| Vary | Accept-Encoding |
| x-hacker | Want root? Visit join.a8c.com/hacker and mention this header. |
| host-header | WordPress.com |
| Link | <https://public-api.wordpress.com/wp-json/?rest_route=/sites/groundwork.wordpress.com>; rel="https://api.w.org/" |
| Cache-Control | must-revalidate, max-age=300 |
| x-nananana | Batcache-Set |
| x-ac | 35.arn _dca UPDATING |
| Alt-Svc | clear |
| Strict-Transport-Security | max-age=31536000 |
| Server-Timing | a8c-cdn, dc;desc=arn, cache;desc=UPDATING;dur=3.0 |
CMS
WordPress
Система управления сайтом (движок)
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CMS — это движок, на котором работает сайт (WordPress, 1C-Bitrix, Tilda и др.). Знание CMS помогает понять возможности SEO-оптимизации и подобрать подходящие инструменты. «Не определена» — вероятно, самописный сайт или нестандартная сборка.
Сайт работает на CMS WordPress.
Веб-сервер
nginx
Программное обеспечение сервера
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Веб-сервер — это ПО, которое отдаёт страницы посетителям (nginx, Apache, IIS, LiteSpeed и др.). Определяется по серверным заголовкам ответа (Server, X-Powered-By и т.п.). «Не определён» — сервер намеренно скрывает эти заголовки, это нормальная практика безопасности.
Сайт работает на веб-сервере nginx.
Мета-теги Готовность: 33%
Title
Groundwork | :Reading and writing
Заголовок страницы в браузере и поисковой выдаче
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Title — главный SEO-заголовок страницы. Влияет на CTR в поиске и ранжирование. Оптимальная длина: 50–70 символов. Ключевые слова — ближе к началу.
Необходимо увеличить число символов в title (текущее значение: 33, оптимально: от 40 до 45)
Дублей словоформ в title не найдено.
Description
:Reading and writing
Описание страницы в поисковой выдаче (сниппет)
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Meta Description — текст под заголовком в выдаче. Напрямую на позиции не влияет, но влияет на CTR. Оптимальная длина: 120–160 символов.
Необходимо увеличить число символов в description (текущее значение мало: 20, минимум: 80, оптимально: от 120 до 130)
Keywords
Список ключевых слов страницы (устаревший тег)
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Meta Keywords не учитывается Яндексом и Google для ранжирования с 2009–2012 годов. Заполнение не обязательно, но не вредит. Конкурент может использовать содержимое для анализа.
Установите мета-тег keywords!
Канонический Url
Указывает поисковику основную версию страницы
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Canonical (rel=canonical) предотвращает проблему дублей страниц. Должен точно совпадать с URL проверяемой страницы. Неправильный canonical может передать ссылочный вес на другую страницу.
Рекомендуем прописать канонический Url.
Robots
Есть ошибки
Директивы для поисковых роботов на уровне страницы
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Meta Robots управляет индексацией конкретной страницы: index/noindex — индексировать ли, follow/nofollow — следовать ли по ссылкам. Noindex полностью исключает страницу из поиска.
Meta-тег robots указан, но в нем содержится неизвестное значение...
Адаптивность
Настройка масштабирования на мобильных устройствах
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Тег viewport (<meta name="viewport">) сообщает браузеру, как масштабировать страницу на мобильных. Стандарт: width=device-width, initial-scale=1. Отсутствие — признак отсутствия мобильной версии.
Meta-тег viewport не указан. Страница не адаптивная.
Разметка OpenGraph
Кол-во: 10
Мета-теги для красивых превью в соцсетях
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OpenGraph (og:title, og:description, og:image) управляет тем, как страница выглядит при репосте в социальных сетях и мессенджерах. Отсутствие OG-тегов — невзрачный превью при шеринге.
Разметка OpenGraph задана. Страница оптимизирована под социальные сети.
Показать полный список og мета-тегов
| Тип | Значение |
|---|---|
| og:type | website |
| og:title | Groundwork |
| og:description | :Reading and writing |
| og:url | https://groundwork.wordpress.com/ |
| og:site_name | Groundwork |
| og:image | https://secure.gravatar.com/blavatar/d05d2a92bd3a9770161a639a8a60ba4a6f65ae849636dc38b4dee6b8a2055e93?s=200&ts=1787374429 |
| og:image:width | 200 |
| og:image:height | 200 |
| og:image:alt | |
| og:locale | en_US |
Все мета-теги
Кол-во: 16
Полный список мета-тегов страницы
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Таблица всех meta-тегов, включая нестандартные. Позволяет найти опечатки, дубли и лишние теги.
Найдены мета-теги 16шт. Мета-теги не видимы для человека и предназначены для обмена информацией между веб-страницей и поисковыми системами, браузерами и другими веб-службами. С ними роботы 🤖 и устройства ведут себя более ожидаемо.
Показать полный список мета-тегов
| Тип | Название | Значение |
|---|---|---|
| name | robots | max-image-preview:large |
| name | google-site-verification | eqxt4cN_gKeamvEPfBDIx-3ii2EsEjmaxIEzAEhg9yM |
| name | generator | WordPress.com |
| name | description | :Reading and writing |
| property | og:type | website |
| property | og:title | Groundwork |
| property | og:description | :Reading and writing |
| property | og:url | https://groundwork.wordpress.com/ |
| property | og:site_name | Groundwork |
| property | og:image | https://secure.gravatar.com/blavatar/d05d2a92bd3a9770161a639a8a60ba4a6f65ae849636dc38b4dee6b8a2055e93?s=200&ts=1787374429 |
| property | og:image:width | 200 |
| property | og:image:height | 200 |
| property | og:image:alt | |
| property | og:locale | en_US |
| property | fb:app_id | 249643311490 |
| property | bilmur:data |
Оптимизация Готовность: 92%
Структура
Ошибок нет
Семантические HTML-элементы страницы
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Проверяет наличие основных структурных элементов: nav, header, footer, main. Корректная семантическая структура помогает поисковику понять архитектуру страницы.
Структура документа корректна (теги <html> и <body> присутствуют по одному на документ).
Контент
Ошибок нет
Объём и качество текстового содержимого
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Анализирует объём полезного текста на странице. Слишком мало — страница может считаться малополезной. Слишком много — ухудшается читаемость и восприятие.
Слова из title 5 встречаются в тексте достаточно.
Абзацев с текстом 167 достаточно.
Среднее число слов в абзаце 31 достаточно.
Кол-во знаков контента 35095 на странице оптимально.
Кол-во слов 6028 на странице оптимально.
Заголовки
Ошибок нет
Иерархия заголовков H1–H6
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H1 должен быть один и содержать ключевой запрос. H2–H6 описывают подразделы. Пропуск уровней (H1 → H3) и несколько H1 — типичные ошибки, снижающие понятность страницы для поисковика.
На странице присутствуют заголовки <h1> 1. Это прекрасно.
На странице присутствуют заголовки <h2> 21. Это хорошо.
На странице присутствуют заголовки <h3> 8.
Тошнота
4,12
Насколько одно слово доминирует в тексте
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Классическая тошнота = √(частота самого повторяющегося слова). Норма до 7–8: текст воспринимается естественно. Выше — поисковик может счесть страницу переспамленной.
Тошнота страницы в пределах нормы 4,12.
Академич. тошнота
18,55%
Насколько текст перенасыщен ключевыми словами
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Академическая тошнота = (частота слова / общее количество слов) × 100%. Показывает долю конкретного слова в тексте. Норма 5–15%.
Академическая тошнота превышает норму 5-15%. Измените текст страницы!
Семантическое ядро
20
Наиболее часто встречающиеся слова на странице
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Топ слов по частоте использования. Показывает, какие слова доминируют в тексте с точки зрения поисковика.
Контент страницы содержит осмысленный текст и слова.
Показать список слов
| Слово | Кол-во | Частота |
|---|---|---|
| 17 | 0,28% | |
| window | 16 | 0,27% |
| khoisan | 14 | 0,23% |
| poetry | 13 | 0,22% |
| miscast | 12 | 0,20% |
| culture | 12 | 0,20% |
| through | 12 | 0,20% |
| politics | 11 | 0,18% |
| loading | 11 | 0,18% |
| africa | 10 | 0,17% |
| comment | 10 | 0,17% |
| permalink | 10 | 0,17% |
| posted | 10 | 0,17% |
| somewhere | 9 | 0,15% |
| history | 9 | 0,15% |
| african | 8 | 0,13% |
| photographs | 8 | 0,13% |
| father | 7 | 0,12% |
| museum | 7 | 0,12% |
| journal | 7 | 0,12% |
Индексация Готовность: 5%
Индексирование
Есть ошибки
Разрешено ли индексирование страницы
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Проверяет, не закрыта ли страница от индексации через robots.txt, meta robots или X-Robots-Tag. Страница, закрытая от индексации, не появится в поисковой выдаче.
Анкоров на странице 308 слишком много. Проведите ревизию и оптимизацию ссылок сайта.
Robots.txt
Найден корректный robots.txt
Файл управления сканированием сайта роботами
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Robots.txt указывает поисковым роботам, какие страницы сканировать, а какие — нет. Ошибки в файле могут случайно закрыть важные разделы от индексации.
Robots.txt настроен корректно. Размер файла: 188081 байт. Загружен за: 0сек.
Проверяемая страница не запрещена в robots.txt.
Robots.txt доступен по постоянному адресу
Цепочка редиректов для файла robots.txt:
http://groundwork.worpress.com/robots.txt
301 MovedPermanently
https://groundwork.wordpress.com/
200 OK
Показать содержимое robots.txt
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8" />
<title>Groundwork | :Reading and writing</title>
<link rel="profile" href="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11" />
<link rel="pingback" href="https://groundwork.wordpress.com/xmlrpc.php" />
<meta name='robots' content='max-image-preview:large' />
<meta name="google-site-verification" content="eqxt4cN_gKeamvEPfBDIx-3ii2EsEjmaxIEzAEhg9yM" />
<link rel='dns-prefetch' href='//s0.wp.com' />
<link rel='dns-prefetch' href='//af.pubmine.com' />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Groundwork » Feed" href="https://groundwork.wordpress.com/feed/" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Groundwork » Comments Feed" href="https://groundwork.wordpress.com/comments/feed/" />
<script type="text/javascript">
/* <![CDATA[ */
function addLoadEvent(func) {
var oldonload = window.onload;
if (typeof window.onload != 'function') {
window.onload = func;
} else {
window.onload = function () {
oldonload();
func();
}
}
}
/* ]]> */
</script>
<style id="wp-img-auto-sizes-contain-inline-css">
img:is([sizes=auto i],[sizes^="auto," i]){contain-intrinsic-size:3000px 1500px}
/*# sourceURL=wp-img-auto-sizes-contain-inline-css */
</style>
<link crossorigin='anonymous' rel='stylesheet' id='all-css-2-1' href='/_static/??-eJx9jt0KwjAMhV/IGqeDXYnP0nWxxqY/rCljb283mSDKbgIn+c45gSkpE4NgEPBFJS6WQoaJBouSAUu9RkeoWE8g6BNrwQxZZsajyfkA/wOYXMWeKEkbp1b1g/cc7cfg9ehQKFjV6xEq+r3Z69pa3hp8jMsYCtcPKNwpkKDKZozMm5738jYG5IG+ZqTSw4r5JIvv5q9N13Vtc7qc2+cLQHF5Bw==&cssminify=yes' type='text/css' media='all' />
<style id="wp-emoji-styles-inline-css">
img.wp-smiley, img.emoji {
display: inline !important;
border: none !important;
box-shadow: none !important;
height: 1em !important;
width: 1em !important;
margin: 0 0.07em !important;
vertical-align: -0.1em !important;
background: none !important;
padding: 0 !important;
}
/*# sourceURL=wp-emoji-styles-inline-css */
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<small>20 November 2021, 10:40 am</small><br />
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">(Review of the <em>Miscast</em> exhibition/installation by Pippa Skotnes; originally published in <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20010420033329/www.uni-ulm.de/~rturrell/antho4html/Miscast.html" target="_blank"><em>Southern African Review of Books</em>, Issue 44, July/August 1996</a>, alongside reviews of same by Carmel Schrire and Yvette Abrahams. Reproduced here unedited.)</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I catch a train into Cape Town and walk to the South African National Gallery to view the <em>Miscast</em> exhibition. Ungraced by deodorant, I will later smell like those children of my youth whom my father, among others, called <em>boesman</em>, <em>hotnot</em>. <em>Lazy hotnots who wanted to do nothing but sit in the sun and suck marrow from bones</em>, teachers called us all. To a South African child, one of the harshest whips language wields: stupid/ lazy <em>boesman</em>/ <em>hotnot</em>; whips we too used on our peers.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><br>I have been following the <em>Miscast</em> story: Pippa Skotnes’s discovery of Khoisan skulls in the British Museum; itself in the wake of the Griqua National Conference’s attempts to retrieve Saartjie Baartman’s preserved brains and genitals from a French museum; and, from an acquaintance involved in <em>Miscast</em>, the surrounding controversy. She couldn’t name the organisations, but mentioned their objections to whites once again re-presenting the Khoisan.<br><br>I dismissed these reported criticisms as knee-jerk reactions. Who, my academic training cautioned me, can claim the authority of authenticity? Who can really speak for the Khoisan? Who is Khoisan?<br><br>My first visit to the gallery, I hesitate at the main entrance, take a wrong turn, try again, and finally enter the <em>Miscast</em> exhibition.<br><br>I start at what must be the frame of the exhibition: cabinets of material culture below panels of photographs. My imagination cants, as it always does when I see the utensils and clothing of ancient peoples. I wonder at the challenge of environment overcome in the implement, and by the imagination.<br><br>My mind wanders to the collection of Native American artefacts in the Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis. An insignificant, young museum, but my first encounter of the Native American exhibited. And in that museum I saw them too in photo-realist paintings: romanticised <em>Injuns</em>; fantastic yearnings for absolution from the guilt of genocidal silence. But this is Cape Town, South Africa.<br><br>Spanning the material culture are photographs of the Khoisan, in loincloths, in Victorian dress. Young adults fettered by their necks. Group hangings, the attendant white commandant or <em>veldkornet</em> striking the obligatory pioneer’s pose, one foot on a block. A pose I often jokingly strike whenever someone aims a camera at me. A pale-skinned woman in Victorian dress, a touch of Khoi in her cheeks. Lucy Lloyd.<br><br>Then I recognise faces: my acquaintance who helped with the project; an academic whose views I respect. And more. Somewhere must be a photograph of Skotnes. I cannot remember what she looks like.<br><br>These photographs recall Skotnes’s implied agenda of questioning past representations of the Khoisan (<em>Mail & Guardian</em>, 16-22 Feb. 1996). But the contemporary faces gaze from their actual role of mediators. Here but for our grace, they say. Or do they claim authority? Ancestry? Who aimed the lens at the exhibitors. (For the sake of brevity, I refer to all the contemporary faces as ‘exhibitors’.)<br><br>Ask photographers whether one can take a shot of them and they respond as if one wants to train their own guns on them. After enough nagging, the photographer might hand over the instrument. But it always returns to the original owner’s hands and the order of power that the wielded camera expresses is restored.<br><br>So, while photographs of the exhibitors among those of the exhibited ironise the former’s power as <em>exhibitor</em>, the structures of that power remain intact. Who, for instance, and in what context, trained the camera on the exhibitors? One photograph comes from an exhibitor’s book jacket: a photograph willingly agreed to, in a professional context perhaps. Certainly the face smiles at the lens with confidence.<br><br>In no way is the exhibitor-photographer relationship even close to the exhibited-photographer one. In no way does the exhibitor as <em>exhibited</em> even approximate a subject position close to that of the exhibited Khoisan. Isn’t the outstanding feature of the history of representation of the Khoisan their subjugation? So that a starting point in any project challenging this history would, for one, interrogate the representational politics of, say, the photographer’s colonising gaze?<br><br>In Michael Moore’s <em>Roger and Me</em>, the film maker’s futile quest to interview the chairman of General Motors places Moore in a position far less powerful than normally associated with the one <em>behind</em> the camera. The film sides with retrenched workers, and Moore goes further to reinvent even this partisan mode of documentary film: in his quest he is denied the documenter’s conventional access to power and knowledge. In <em>Miscast</em>, no such <em>gesture</em> obtains. The photographs of the exhibitors do not raise even an oblique challenge to the history of the relationship of power underlying representations of the Khoisan.<br><br>If these photographs alert us to, ironise and thematise the <em>fact</em> of representation, why not use them too as a site where the history of the present exhibitors’ power to represent may be displayed. All the variables: childhood, hard work, education, funding, artistic vision, collaboration, friendships. How, in other words, does a particular contemporary face come to be there, on the wall, mediating to us? How, I want to know, does <em>Miscast</em> otherwise challenge past and (its own) present representations of the Khoisan. How does it say, <em>This is how we looked at the Khoisan; here is a new way to look</em>? At best, the photographs appear as faddish lip service to post-modern notions of self-aware representations.<br><br>Another site where Skotnes miscasts a prime opportunity to dislocate conventional subject-object relationships of representation is the cabinet of ‘face masks’. These are pieces cut (by Skotnes)* from old Khoisan facial casts, cut in such a way that the pieces look like masks; some, in fact, with glass fibre tufts left at the edges, like a fancy mask one would wear to a masquerade ball, say when the Cape was still Dutch. Surely masks present a fine moment for playing with representation. Why not facial masks cast from the exhibitors’ faces? Or the exhibitors’ names placed under the existing masks? Or would that be misrepresentation?<br><br>My parents trace lines to exotic origins: Turkey, Indonesia, Wales. They never mention the kink in our hair. In age though, their cheekbones speak silenced lineages.<br><br>But I am not Khoisan. I know not the ways of Karretjiemense. Nor do I speak the Afrikaans of the Northern Cape, or in clicks. Similarly am I not Turkish, Welsh, Indonesian. Nor white – not semiotically, not economically. Neither am I black, unless intentionally, rhetorically.<br><br>But the whips of language have left their weals on me: <em>hotnot</em>, <em>kaffer</em>, <em>kerrienaat</em> (curry-arse); traces of who I could/ should have been. And I view the first chamber of <em>Miscast</em> more and more now in agreement with Khoisan activists; more and more as the exhibited. How the structures remain intact.<br><br>For many minutes the boxes piled high – the colonial collection and codification of artefact and body – wrench at me. Then I circle the lit body casts, linger self-consciously at the cast of a naked woman, and pass through into the other two chambers.<br><br>I spend some moments on the media floor and ignore the questions that rise to me here. But I do wonder whether the miscast caption under a photograph of a man smoking (‘Roy Sesana making a fence for his garden’) does not reveal the casual, inattentive treatment of the subject matter. How can an artist (vision and imagination?) who has spent time researching the Khoisan overlook prime moments where her ironisation of representation could have been politically interesting and not fashion-driven, surface <em>gesture without motion</em>?<br><br>At the slide show, I sit down and think about the above as the projector loops through its ironisation of representation: slides of other representations; of the conventional Bushman coffee table book; of white children staring at Bushmen; of graffiti over rock paintings. How do these quotations of quotations necessarily invent a new mode of representation?<br><br>Homi Bhabha writes:</p>
<blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"><p>The Other is cited, quoted, framed, illuminated, encased in the shot/ reverse-shot strategy of a serial enlightenment. … The Other loses its power to signify, to negate, to initiate its historic desire, to establish its own institutional and oppositional discourse. However impeccably the content of an ‘other’ culture may be known, however anti-ethnocentrically it is represented, it is … the demand that … it be always the good object of knowledge, the docile body of difference, that reproduces a relation of domination …. (<em>The Location of Culture</em> (London: Routledge, 1994) p.31)</p></blockquote>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">How things remain intact.<br><br>The show ends. Behind the screen, the projector clacks unendingly, like train wheels over rail joints. Like a train bound for a death camp. <em>Boegoe</em>nwald.<br><br>Also behind the screen, English spoken with a heavy Afrikaans accent. The confluence of other histories of concentration camps.<br><br>The white owners of the voices emerge and leave the room. Almost immediately, a black attendant enters and restarts the show. Moments later, three black men huff and puff as, guided by a white man, they carry-drag a big crate behind the screen. How things hang together, I think and leave.<br><br>On my way to the station, I stop for coffee at the <em>Off Moroka Cafe Africaine</em>, Adderley Street. A white woman serves me. The wall to my left sports a naive watercolour of a Bushman hunter. In the kitchen, black women. On another wall, graffiti – Albie Sachs: ‘Viva the <em>lekkerness</em> of life’. Outside, black workers walk past, oblivious to this <em>Cafe Africaine</em>. A woman appears from the kitchen, Khoisan cheekbones. Her name tag reads ‘Catherine’. Our eyes meet momentarily. I feel like a voyeur who has seen Catherine’s genitals. I want to drink myself to death. Someone screams outside. My back to the door, I imagine a taxi war breaking out in Adderley Street. I fear any moment now AK47 slugs will rip into my back. How things hang together. It is time to go home.<br><br>On my walk home from the station, I buy a bag of avocados. I grip the plastic netting and feel my fingers negotiate history. I wonder how past (ancestral?) hands felt clasping a net of leather thongs, such as a nomad might use to carry his possessions; such as the one I saw at the gallery.<br><br>In my kitchen, the bag tears and the fruit roll all over the floor. I am too tired to bend and pick them up. I have walked a lot today. And, ungraced by deodorant, I smell like a <em>hotnot</em>, as my father would say.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"> * <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20010420033455/http://www.uni-ulm.de/~rturrell/antho4html/Skotnes.html" target="_blank">Pippa Skotnes’s correction</a> as an aside in her response to mainly Yvette Abrahams’s review: “Rustum Kozain is also mistaken in thinking that I cut out pieces of the casts. The eyes which remind him of masks were cast separately later to be slotted into the heads, as part of the original casting project.”</p>
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<small>31 March 2017, 9:06 am</small><br />
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<p><em>From the archive, a short piece of fiction written for a Sunday Times special, set in South Africa, 2030.</em></p>
<p>“Fifty dollar!” the tuk-tuk driver yelled over the noise of helicopters chopping air over heavy loads at the docks nearby and revellers in the streets banging drums and setting off fireworks. The Atlantic was black as oil, the outlines of two abandoned diamond dredgers visible in the light spilling from the perimeter of the United Northern States of America naval depot. Out in deeper water blinked the lights of a hospital ship.</p>
<p>Lionel Powell wasn’t in the mood for haggling; he paid and crossed the road to Hunan Joys, a resto overlooking the docks. He was jumpy and winced at a loud bang from a large cracker. It was Freedom Day, the holiday celebrating the peaceful settlement reached between colonial settlers and native peoples back in 1913, but all he cared about was some rutting and recreation after the major fubar three weeks ago at Cuito Canaveral.</p>
<p>The resto was noisy with troops either back and battered from Cuito or fresh-faced and anxious on their way there. The kitchen was down to serving seal steaks and rice and salt fish. On special were PRC ratpacks, pilfered from bases after China’s withdrawal from the People’s Republic of Xaoteng. Hunan’s hosts and hostesses were struggling against waves of groping hands by troops who couldn’t afford them. But the simbays were full and the staff had to keep the hope of sex alive.</p>
<p>“Beer?” Hunanje, the owner, asked him.</p>
<p>Early skirmishes with Southern African troops had emboldened UNSA and Brazil, who poured more troops and equipment into a massive push north, the front stretching from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean. But behind this canon fodder, well-bunkered in Ximbabwe, Xambia and central Angola, were the PRC’s 6th, 7th and 3rd armies. The UNSA advance had stalled under a series of fire storms for which its troops were ill-prepared. Old hands like Lionel were veterans only of suppressing civilian uprisings in Canada, a last-gasp land grab as UNSA influence dwindled elsewhere, and they were shaken by the PRC armies’ ferocity.</p>
<p>Sechuana was scorched earth, its network of frack wells and pipelines, extending from the Carew in the south, had been set alight during the PRC retreat and was now a toxic no-go area. After the setback at Cuito, UNSA was consolidating, allowing troops who had been on long tours back as far south as Port Nolloth, its major base on the west coast from which it hoped to advance a prong through Namibia in order to encircle the PRC 6th and 7th armies in Ximbabwe, while its allies, lead by Germany, battled through the east coast and interior.</p>
<p>“Susy or Sean tonight? Or both?” Hunanje winked at him.</p>
<p>Lionel wasn’t in the mood.</p>
<p>“Simbay? I’ll put you on the short list.”</p>
<p>Most of the troops distrusted Hunanje, but Lionel liked the old man. At least he knew a bit of the history of the place. Historical South Africa.</p>
<p>The PRC had been driven north, but its allies, India and Indonesia, still ruled a third of the place, their respective territories stretching along the east coast. And the Republic of Xaoteng – the part that China had occupied – was a mire of ever-shifting allegiances among the Africans and the 50 million Chinese settlers. Things were precarious.</p>
<p>“Happy Freedom Day!”</p>
<p>A civilian had burst through the door and set off a cracker. As Lionel winced, there was a much louder bang outside. Lights and machinery clicked off. The hush lasted a few seconds, then the sirens began wailing…</p>
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<h2><a href="https://groundwork.wordpress.com/2016/02/26/dear-comrades-ii/" rel="bookmark">Dear comrades, II</a></h2>
<small>26 February 2016, 7:52 am</small><br />
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<p>Dear comrades, we see you<br />
now<br />
everywhere<br />
on<br />
Facebook</p>
<p>we see you<br />
clown<br />
and sermonise<br />
in tweets<br />
of desperate guise</p>
<p>while fattening<br />
off our purse</p>
<p>rolling around on fairways<br />
and on greens<br />
posing<br />
next to your fancy cars<br />
or some American superstar</p>
<p>patting each other<br />
on the back<br />
lips and cheeks<br />
glistening at tables<br />
of half-eaten food</p>
<p>in photographs<br />
at expensive restaurants<br />
in New York, London and Beijing.<br />
You name it, the city<br />
has been eaten<br />
in</p>
<p>drinks drank<br />
of acquired taste<br />
sophistication<br />
acquiring<br />
far more</p>
<p>tender<br />
than a worker makes in years.</p>
<p>We see you<br />
ride<br />
into town<br />
playing West Wing or CIA<br />
playing gangster<br />
on someone else’s coin</p>
<p>our coin, our coin<br />
for your acting dream<br />
on lurid sets<br />
of chintz that flash of thievery.</p>
<p>We’re all actors<br />
in this<br />
I suppose<br />
us<br />
the five cent extras</p>
<p>but we see you<br />
also<br />
headless<br />
chickens<br />
over hot coals<br />
when we’ve seen enough.</p>
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<small>14 November 2015, 4:11 pm</small><br />
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<p><strong>The wind in the morning</strong></p>
<p>The man wakes from dream<br />
to nightmare,<br />
his night-aged knees<br />
buckling<br />
over rubble<br />
outside when he emerges<br />
from the black mouth of his house</p>
<p>its burnt shell a meagre shelter<br />
from the wind<br />
now tugging at a loose something<br />
and the blight it brings<br />
like a scythe through the valleys.</p>
<p>Let the sun rise if it must.<br />
Let it burn through the wind.<br />
Let it dry them eventual white<br />
and broken as the earth –<br />
his neighbours the two lovers</p>
<p>charred in copulation<br />
on the blackened bed<br />
as if they unleashed the starbursts<br />
of the bombs,<br />
that burning burning out their love.</p>
<p>What’s left are the wind-worn harvests:<br />
the neighbours’ ache,<br />
friends’ unanswered calls,<br />
a mother who cries,<br />
who wanders<br />
until death<br />
among the millions of the unconsoled.</p>
<p>We who also wake<br />
but turn away cowed, unshamed,<br />
we whisper only to each other<br />
of the murdered and the maimed:<br />
single, multiple, mass –<br />
the killing fields the index of our regress<br />
back from Auschwitz-Birkenau.</p>
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<small>30 December 2014, 8:22 am</small><br />
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<p><strong>For W.</strong></p>
<p><strong>1. Ohio, 1994</strong></p>
<p>When the shutter clicked, you jumped back<br />
and hated me for that one moment<br />
you had glanced into my camera,<br />
as if my shutter had fallen<br />
like a guillotine<br />
through parts of you.</p>
<p>I should have known. Weeks before,<br />
smoking outside after class,<br />
we both mauled Gary Snyder<br />
for playing the vegetarian<br />
shaman astride the turtle back<br />
of his American mountain.</p>
<p>Somewhere down a parent’s line,<br />
you said and looked earthwards<br />
at your toecaps pawing grey<br />
Midwestern gravel. Somewhere<br />
down the line, native blood pushes<br />
at your insides. As if you had said</p>
<p>too much, you looked over my shoulder,<br />
shook your head and blew smoke<br />
through pursed lips at the stars and stripes,<br />
its rope sounding the flagpole.<br />
Native, you said again and reached back<br />
to smooth your ponytail.</p>
<p>Then you lifted your sleeve<br />
and showed me the tattoo:<br />
inked thickly inside a circle,<br />
a brave’s head; and dangling<br />
from his stiffly banded ponytail,<br />
two feathers breaching the ring.</p>
<p><strong>2. Cape Town, 1995</strong></p>
<p>Now, reading again of Wounded Knee,<br />
the Trail of Tears, I test<br />
names by my tongue: Oglala Sioux,<br />
Lakota Sioux, many Sioux;<br />
difficult ones: Wampanoag,<br />
Kwakiutl; the easier Mohawk,</p>
<p>Iroquois, Shawnee. And I measure<br />
the distance and proximity<br />
from Choctaw to Xhosa, Arawak<br />
to Hawequas; probe velum and palate,<br />
wondering how names here might sound<br />
if you curled your tongue</p>
<p>around Goringhaiqua, Khoi-Khoi<br />
and tasted the many trails of tears<br />
of all of us, the salt lick of wounds,<br />
the many long lines that lead,<br />
always, from pox to romance,<br />
from colony to the encircling museum.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>(from <em>This Carting Life</em>, Kwelabooks/Snailpress)</strong></p>
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<small>23 December 2014, 8:43 am</small><br />
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<p><strong>Christmas Eve</strong></p>
<p>Almost all is ruin –<br />
the Mozart fugue that fails<br />
its promise<br />
of deliberate consolation,</p>
<p>the unending ticker and swish<br />
of a sprinkler outside,<br />
and the roads angry<br />
with traffic</p>
<p>in last-minute errands<br />
as the year breaks again,<br />
breaks again<br />
into its manifold terrors –</p>
<p>Christmas Eve and its solitudes<br />
for the holy and the damned;<br />
and the thin disguise the lonely wear<br />
as if shirked by God</p>
<p>or shirked by friends<br />
who vanish to gods<br />
in small towns<br />
where the earth’s bounty lies:</p>
<p>jungle, waterfall, placid lake.<br />
But the earth is weary.<br />
The thin earth<br />
will admit it’s lonely</p>
<p>as it makes the jagged cliff its own,<br />
the arid plain,<br />
its bare spaces<br />
where some still go.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>(from <em>Groundwork</em>, Kwela/Snailpress, 2012)</strong></p>
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<small>15 December 2014, 5:34 pm</small><br />
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<p><strong>This carting life</strong></p>
<p><em>I met History once, but he ain’t recognize me.</em><br />
– Derek Walcott, ‘The Schooner Flight’</p>
<p>On pilgrimage down damp steps, deep inside<br />
the British Museum, among boxes stocked<br />
roof-high, I rummage. And sniff like a dog<br />
and pause, snout snuffling for my nearest quarry,<br />
for the tacks to my own, final shit.</p>
<p>Which box fell from Father’s cart<br />
knocking about through the Karoo, farm to farm<br />
as he tendered his art to anyone<br />
who’d pay him a bauble or some jot of tripe<br />
for shearing a sheep, planting a split pole?</p>
<p>In regulation tatters, did we children<br />
skulk behind Mother as Father would<br />
talk over terms of trade with the farmer<br />
or foreman: yes, you may pitch there<br />
draw water here; firewood you find yourself?</p>
<p>Did we all pitch in? Unpack and pile<br />
box and sack and pole? And Father swore<br />
and hammered, tied all into a bigger box,<br />
our pitching home for a few days<br />
until we had to cart it off again?</p>
<p>Did I search for the giant spiders<br />
tempered overnight into tangles of dead wood,<br />
their many legs that make good kindling<br />
shadowed like webs under gutless bodies?<br />
Did I drag back bundles, scoring long lines</p>
<p>that led to our fire at night?<br />
And how then we did dream. Learning to play<br />
the bow, did I pluck at hamstrung song, coddling<br />
my instrument? And the others rocked?<br />
Swinging his dregs out in a dark arc</p>
<p>did Father cough and rise, and from his box<br />
fetch shears, a jar of used, black oil<br />
and a heavy lump wrapped in greased cloth;<br />
then, hands trembling as if it were our saving<br />
charm, bare the ever-dwindling whetstone?</p>
<p>While my string thrummed, stopped, quivered again,<br />
like the incomplete tongues troubling in me,<br />
was the slap and slick of stone on iron<br />
Father’s reluctant percussion?<br />
Did he sing? And Mother too? The young ones</p>
<p>staring at the flame and coal? And I fixed<br />
on the stars to try hold the course of my string?<br />
Was this how sleep stalked us, as song rung<br />
in our cambering heads, the children<br />
soon propping each other, then carried</p>
<p>to bed down in the smells of smoke and sand,<br />
of gods and people, burled like kooigras?<br />
And we did sleep until dawn brought the clang<br />
of cup and shears strung to Father’s waist<br />
as, stooping, out he went to work?</p>
<p>Did I later take him shards of potbread<br />
spread with fat? Kneeling on the spine<br />
of a sheep, did he withhold his shears, look up<br />
and say the sheep are nearly done, tonight<br />
we roast tripe, but tell Mother to pack</p>
<p>we go north tomorrow, yes we go north …?</p>
<p>Did we then lose the box, when we left?<br />
Fallen from the cart over some unbidden bump?<br />
Or with wind in our heads did we forget<br />
the box, a lone tombstone among footprints,<br />
the tools a rattle of charms, like bones,</p>
<p>like runes without which we were turned<br />
from farm to enclosed farm? But north,<br />
always north we trekked,<br />
until we hung from the cracked lip<br />
of a vast, somnolent desert?</p>
<p>And did we stray there many days?<br />
Did we turn south again and, hungry<br />
at the first fence, did Father unroll<br />
his bow and quiver,<br />
long forgot?</p>
<p>*</p>
<p>But all that came later. And somewhere<br />
in these many cunning passages must lie<br />
a box that holds our shears and whetstone.<br />
For now, I reach for the nearest box.<br />
It shifts and pitches in my hands<br />
as unknown weights rollick unbound inside.</p>
<p>I steady it and place it down, kneel<br />
and blow at the dust. Then wait for history<br />
to settle around me. Is this box my own<br />
making? To hoard a craft predating carts<br />
and shears? Or did I roll into it</p>
<p>among others tossed too like bones?<br />
Predicting life running, wandering, skulking?<br />
And death? And after death<br />
enclosure in boxes? And kept from<br />
boxed-in earth and sky?</p>
<p>Did we see it coming? And now can do<br />
nothing but roll and bump our heads?<br />
And stare visionless, with sockets<br />
hollowed by science and filled with baubles,<br />
at our own lives our interrogators?</p>
<p>My lips drawn but caught in mid-cry<br />
as I screamed not for help but yearned<br />
the province of the mantis? Stalled<br />
in prayer, cut off from grace?<br />
Because in supplication we refused</p>
<p>the first fences that already ran<br />
from sun-up to where night pummelled the sky?<br />
And kept our arrows trained on cattle?<br />
Belly-slow after a feast,<br />
could we not run fast enough? And sought</p>
<p>to meld with moon, rock, inadequate shrub?<br />
Close to the ground, did we hear the hooves<br />
drum, the horsemen, the dedicants of prophecy?<br />
Did we crouch and wait<br />
for seven muskets hanging from the clouds</p>
<p>like unequivocal fingers of some foreign god?<br />
And then lead balls did prod us<br />
to silence for the real work<br />
of bayonets punching stars in our bodies?<br />
Stagnant stars that in days would turn blue?</p>
<p>Blue stars by whose unsounded frequencies<br />
vultures would tack on course, dip into<br />
cartwheels and circle unseen above us,<br />
to triangulate the closest hopping distance<br />
so that in feast they may unburden the earth?</p>
<p>By then our disremembered bodies<br />
asserting their span of land only<br />
by the reach of that temporary smell<br />
of bloat? All this unseen by us boxed-in<br />
heads, heading for port?</p>
<p>How we did feel the thrum of blades<br />
on our necks. Like gods run amok<br />
under the skin, the madness that sings<br />
before the first nick; as the nick promises<br />
the first inch opening, and so on,</p>
<p>unzipping further as bayonets sawed<br />
through our necks. Was I alive still?<br />
Even as in their cold ecstasy stars<br />
untimely had spangled my body like some pox?<br />
And I did feel and smell the hand</p>
<p>that tilted my jaw and had not charity?<br />
Did I scream then and it was cut<br />
out of me, stopped short of godhead? And how<br />
did they negotiate vertebrae, cartilage?<br />
And did a bookbinder, fingers adept</p>
<p>at pampering vellum, tuck flaps of neck-skin<br />
under our jaws, sealing thus the servants<br />
of the praying mantis in their foreheads?<br />
Our souls now caught as recompense<br />
for some flank of beef just-begotten?</p>
<p>*</p>
<p>Is this then the infirm box I stall before<br />
and play at wiping gloves of dust<br />
from me, as an intercom intones<br />
closing time: five minutes to go<br />
before I’m enclosed in the museum?</p>
<p>Will I leave this box unopened too,<br />
heads unrolled onto my lap, and break<br />
into a brisk walk into damp London?<br />
And will a drizzle soon clot the dust<br />
on my clothes as I run for shelter,</p>
<p>fugitively wiping at my knees and elbows?</p>
<p>(from <em>This Carting Life</em>, Kwela/Snailpress, 2005)</p>
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<small>29 November 2014, 11:03 am</small><br />
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<p>Morning, under its wind-still, sun-gold halo.<br />
Occasional only the frisson of a breeze<br />
through a palm tree across the road,<br />
the green oak, the break of red hibiscus<br />
and the slow start of Saturday<br />
humming in a car passing leisurely by.</p>
<p>Down the road gently rock at their moorings<br />
the tugs at harbour.<br />
Ships like play things<br />
at anchor in the now gentle crook of the bay.<br />
The sky blue as every one of its clichés.</p>
<p>Somewhere under this peaceable excess,<br />
a woman wakes with bruised eyes<br />
or ribs, split lips<br />
or she doesn’t rise at all.</p>
<p>Somewhere in this city,<br />
on this beautiful, god-forsaken morning,<br />
in an alley or a backyard,<br />
somewhere,<br />
a dog twists in confusion<br />
by the still form of its owner;</p>
<p>or in a plush lounge,<br />
somewhere in this country<br />
with its miracles and its wonders,<br />
a woman will not rise<br />
but lie slain – shot, hacked,<br />
disembowelled by a lover,<br />
a husband, a father or brother.</p>
<p>Soon, another one will fall.</p>
<p>Somewhere a girl-child,<br />
a baby<br />
who will withdraw forever from touch,<br />
who will drown<br />
in shame<br />
in a sea never sought<br />
nor comprehended<br />
burning<br />
where words turn in on themselves<br />
in the recursive savagery<br />
of the unspeakable…</p>
<p>Politicians flap their arms, open and close their mouths,<br />
launch campaign upon campaign<br />
of empty gesture<br />
then turn backstage<br />
to fondle a comrade’s daughter<br />
with whom just now they’ll lead the march.</p>
<p>Another march. Another speech.<br />
By a brigadier or police commander<br />
festooned with tin medals<br />
invented for some moral war won only in their heads;<br />
by community leaders agitating still<br />
for their time at the trough;<br />
by spin doctors and advertisers<br />
crowd-sourcing and monetizing<br />
petitions to end the violence;<br />
by NGO and foundation heads on a break<br />
from their 4×4 safaris to the organic market –</p>
<p>all come to be seen<br />
mouthing dull platitudes<br />
from which the sky recoils.</p>
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<small>12 November 2014, 6:50 am</small><br />
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<p><strong>Leave it to us</strong></p>
<p>Do this, not that<br />
leave it to us</p>
<p>eat this, not that<br />
leave it to us</p>
<p>drink this, not that<br />
leave it to us</p>
<p>sit like this, not like that<br />
leave it to us</p>
<p>talk like this, not like that<br />
leave it to us</p>
<p>walk like this, not like that<br />
leave it to us</p>
<p>wear this, not that<br />
leave it to us</p>
<p>pray like this, not like that<br />
leave it to us</p>
<p>have sex like this, not like that<br />
leave it to us</p>
<p>do not abominate<br />
leave it to us</p>
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<small>10 November 2014, 8:43 am</small><br />
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<p><strong>Genseis</strong></p>
<p>Colkie McCulklen is dead<br />
and the princss<br />
see them move on the darkness<br />
of the waters and the earth<br />
the face of Charles Bronson in other words,<br />
and Pacino the mohterfucker,<br />
alas, alos dead.<br />
Mr Brond and that guy in the red car,<br />
and Jason Bored, the X-mint<br />
and –womint, theyr ALL DEAD.</p>
<p>I remember Jane Seymour</p>
<p>in the formless voidacom.</p>
<p>Roudn of APPLAUSE. Thank you.</p>
<p>Eastwood sits on a chair, they clap.</p>
<p>He talks to the chair<br />
but it don’t listen to him.</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
<p>The stars are reams.</p>
<p>Hoffman is walking there, he’s walking there.<br />
Gunnerman is gone.</p>
<p>The tsars are reams. Some<br />
overdose, shoot up horse,<br />
too much horse,<br />
liquor the vicar, the priests<br />
the girls, the boys molested:<br />
catholics and imams, rabbis amd gurus<br />
the sheiks of oil, of all, of old<br />
of puppetry, colonial sahabi<br />
ya habibi<br />
and then the wahabi</p>
<p>theyr dead, all dead</p>
<p>reams of infamy</p>
<p>Bush, Obama, the whole dice dead,<br />
Hillary gored<br />
Bin Laden the seasoick<br />
the US blergh</p>
<p>That Williams gut, bless his soul.<br />
Hollywood got him, dead.</p>
<p>Bridges of bloody stone country.<br />
(old reference, I have often noticed)</p>
<p>Look, ther they lie (or is it lay)<br />
lifeless, broken on the riverbed.</p>
<p>We gawk at zombies.</p>
<p>Run, I say, run! Run, run, run!</p>
<p>But tomorroe, tomorrow<br />
we’ll re-run with euphemism<br />
terrorism vampirism liquid jism<br />
put it in your foxcroft aphorism</p>
<p>(Turn around)<br />
every now and then<br />
I get nervous<br />
that the best gears have all gone by</p>
<p>(Turn around)<br />
Every now and then<br />
I get terrified<br />
But then I see the book in your eyes</p>
<p>and it solves nothing<br />
not hunger nor truant artists<br />
racists, anti-racists, non-<br />
and multi-bloody-fuck-you-racists<br />
poverty, the dread disease<br />
the cabal of brouhaha<br />
the ego of Cock, Dick & Penis Incorporated<br />
the silent, dumb mass of you zombies<br />
the arse-bend of Spidergrawl</p>
<p>the confunction of the bloggerbies:</p>
<p>Mistah Kurtz, the un-dead.</p>
<p>Marlow he solves not murder,<br />
the crimbling stories<br />
of the apiarists,<br />
the ape-men, the old movies<br />
re-done for tuppence<br />
if I may speak colonial</p>
<p>May I?</p>
<p>Graceful. Magnanimous of you<br />
that I can use these words<br />
too<br />
and be free<br />
of white-wash-ionside-coconutism<br />
and all my spelling blerrors</p>
<p>I am allowed?</p>
<p>Than you, than uou.</p>
<p>Now it divides<br />
form from chaos<br />
light from dark<br />
and the cables are laid</p>
<p>and the internet buzzes<br />
into life<br />
and it saw that all was good</p>
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