How the Department of Cooperation And Development Rehoused Mrs. Bhekeni Ngidi, and: Cesar Mendoza, General Of Chile, Collects The South African Police Star For Outstanding Services

4 the minnesota review Keith Gottschalk How the Department of Cooperation And Development Rehoused Mrs. Bhekeni Ngidi Under the sun, the man. under the man, the bulldozer. under the bulldozer, the crushed pondok. under the pondok, the dead grandmother. under the grandmother, the rising People. N. B. In South African government newspeak, the Native Affairs Department is currently titled "Department of Cooperation and Development." A pondok is a shanty. Keith Gottschalk Cesar Mendoza, General Of Chile, Collects The South African Police Star For Outstanding Services we are the two lands where they feed stones on men. in our seas men's hands Sgottschalk drag onto deck the struggling nets, fish resisting, fighting for life. sardines: beheaded guts suctioned out, entombed in tins. in canneries women's hands pack the endless belt. in mines & factories dust-shrouded workers breathe quartz or nitrates, trudge over breaking stone driven by steel machine. this bloodied decade supplants the trinity behold : the Reign on Earth of the Chilean Tetrarchs. guarded by these four generals factories & tenaments vineyards & orchards partake the communion of bone-meal & red wine. Cesar Mendoza General of Chile, General of Gendarmerie, rides in boots of gaucho leather. & in his belt machine-pistol: vigilant. II it was the time of hunger when men ate earth; the time of terror when earth ate men. the Tetrarchs walk across the water the Tetrarchs hunt with their fellow peaked caps. Cesar's boots inspect this neighbourly social order; Cesar certifies: nihil obstat— no errors of morals or doctrine. 6 the minnesota review Cesar mounts reviewing stand of the Police College Cesar annoints the ranks of blue with the roman salute. sam brownes serve the plate delivering, in lieu of John the baptist, a Star for Outstanding Services. gloved hands clamp it to Cesar's chest, arms salute: peaked caps understand one another. Cesar departs across the water; riding-boots bestride the Andes. & under Cesar's boots the stones; & under the satiated stones stir the unforgotten dead. ...