As I said, I do not like people, so, of course, it was inevitable that, two nights ago, I had a falling out with obert when the little cretin decided that the money I had given to him when I had met him at the train station on my way to wynberg , for food, for us, was better used for himself, and I almost threw him off the mountain. Yesterday, there fore, when vinnie, as we sat in his house working on an order, asked me if I was not fed up with the mountain -what with the circus act I find myself being as far as the idiot women are concerned- I plainly replied I WAS. Up to my neck!Then, of course, he brought up the staying in masiphumelele, issue, and pointed out it was the month end, and that I could get a room of my own, and have my own set of keys, and live independently... . then he asked if I would not mind, just in case, giving him the details of my next of kin, in Zimbabwe, and he brought out his laptop, and asked me to type it in a word document.
Very aware of the irony of it, I nevertheless did it, and this is what I wrote:-
Name:- Prince Mutasa
D.O.B.:- 11-March-1982
Nationality:- Zimbabwean
Home Address:- 17701 New Cranborne, Harare
Alternative address:- 30 Hoffman St, Mambo T/ship, Gweru
Next of kin:- Artwell Thaddeus Mashora Mutasa
(That actually IS my father's full name:- he dropped the Mutasa bit after he retired from the army, and discouraged us from using it, but, well, I find it less demeaning than 'Mashora' which means, among other things, being looked down on)
So, as I wrote THAT last part, I felt the weirdness that means I have gone totally, iconoclastically, and unreversible... over the edge... and so, because I have One that seems to pop in in these circumstances and give the green light when I wonder whether what I am thinking about is actually within His scope; I waited.
Tense, and going more and more agitated with each pasing minute. Would have gone to wynberg but when the... intelligent... chick decided to show up and check up on me, I not only summarily rejected her at that moment -I do not think it is possible that I would ever have a civil word to say to her, not after all this bitterness that she , and her friend, have evoked in me- but I decided not to play her game, ever again.So, I did not go.
And as I later climbed the mountain, this song, by misty-n-roots, which LP album I used to play at home, started echoing in my head, and decided me that it was OK for me to take a page out of the book of christ, and do as he did with his father, and go... rogue.
I decided i would become the son-of-man, because of it. it was inevitable, of course:-
I am saying that THIS will not happen, that I and my father be reconciled. I am saying that what will happen instead is that i will take over the world, and call that which is mine to myself, and do away with the rest.
That means all of you, and that means i will be soon done with this heavy load, and have no more need for ... talk.
because I CAN close, and none shall open, and open, and none shall shut.
consider therefore that what I said is CLOSED is just that, closed, and what I said is open, IS as I said.
Now, who the fuck will fight against THAT?
OK, then, maybe with the 'women' I may have been too hasty, but then, unless THEY show me waht they are thinking, I am not really sure where I stand, right?
I mean, if the five are THE five, then, since I am so weary of all this, I will admit defeat and just let them have their own way;- i am too tired to fight them or even get seriously pissed off against them anymore. Besides, I have no interest in looking elsewhere. MY doors in that direction are shut.
Sealed, barred and forever locked.
provided they somehow haul ass before I act.
Ok, then, so maybe that chick with brains was just wondering if it WAS me she had seen, since i was attired differently than I normally am. maybe she was not even trying to yank my chain!
Very aware of the irony of it, I nevertheless did it, and this is what I wrote:-
Document Name: Prince Wemugomo("Wemugomo" means "Of the mountain")
Name:- Prince Mutasa
D.O.B.:- 11-March-1982
Nationality:- Zimbabwean
Home Address:- 17701 New Cranborne, Harare
Alternative address:- 30 Hoffman St, Mambo T/ship, Gweru
Next of kin:- Artwell Thaddeus Mashora Mutasa
(That actually IS my father's full name:- he dropped the Mutasa bit after he retired from the army, and discouraged us from using it, but, well, I find it less demeaning than 'Mashora' which means, among other things, being looked down on)
So, as I wrote THAT last part, I felt the weirdness that means I have gone totally, iconoclastically, and unreversible... over the edge... and so, because I have One that seems to pop in in these circumstances and give the green light when I wonder whether what I am thinking about is actually within His scope; I waited.
Tense, and going more and more agitated with each pasing minute. Would have gone to wynberg but when the... intelligent... chick decided to show up and check up on me, I not only summarily rejected her at that moment -I do not think it is possible that I would ever have a civil word to say to her, not after all this bitterness that she , and her friend, have evoked in me- but I decided not to play her game, ever again.So, I did not go.
And as I later climbed the mountain, this song, by misty-n-roots, which LP album I used to play at home, started echoing in my head, and decided me that it was OK for me to take a page out of the book of christ, and do as he did with his father, and go... rogue.
I decided i would become the son-of-man, because of it. it was inevitable, of course:-
Forward, out of this armageddon
stepping forward, stepping out of babylon
are we forward, out of this armageddon...
All this brain washing
me tell the bandits, we are suffering
how can I sing my father's song again
in this, a strange land?
I had to ask myself how I could possibly, ever again, go and make peace with people that I have been trying to get over for the past six years, and i found that , if it means taking apart the whole world simply so that THAT does not happen, then so be it. I hate the mountain life, of course, and I KNOW that going to stay among people would only exacerbate the anguish I feel already, and while I am not going to overtly DO anything, I am however invoking the release clause that is exclusively MINE in cases like this.stepping forward, stepping out of babylon
are we forward, out of this armageddon...
All this brain washing
me tell the bandits, we are suffering
how can I sing my father's song again
in this, a strange land?
I am saying that THIS will not happen, that I and my father be reconciled. I am saying that what will happen instead is that i will take over the world, and call that which is mine to myself, and do away with the rest.
That means all of you, and that means i will be soon done with this heavy load, and have no more need for ... talk.
because I CAN close, and none shall open, and open, and none shall shut.
consider therefore that what I said is CLOSED is just that, closed, and what I said is open, IS as I said.
Now, who the fuck will fight against THAT?
OK, then, maybe with the 'women' I may have been too hasty, but then, unless THEY show me waht they are thinking, I am not really sure where I stand, right?
I mean, if the five are THE five, then, since I am so weary of all this, I will admit defeat and just let them have their own way;- i am too tired to fight them or even get seriously pissed off against them anymore. Besides, I have no interest in looking elsewhere. MY doors in that direction are shut.
Sealed, barred and forever locked.
provided they somehow haul ass before I act.
Ok, then, so maybe that chick with brains was just wondering if it WAS me she had seen, since i was attired differently than I normally am. maybe she was not even trying to yank my chain!
