if ee cummings had visited south africa

i thank you God for most this amazing country: for blacks girls who Bruce Lee kung-fu and white girls Xhosa-clapping; and for everything which is impossible which is painful which is new (i who was away am returned, restored again today, and this place that was rage, forgiven; where birth and death follow hard, but tight-packed life finds play among litter-heaps, suburbs and rural earth)     how should bleeding weeping joking singing each and together make experience powerful, true to every man woman child and teach us never to doubt unimaginable You? (now the songs of imperfect choirs, mines, protests and ambitious showers cry hope across a contrary land)

 

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