The Shameful State by Tansi Sony Labou

Author:Tansi, Sony Labou [Tansi, Sony Labou]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2016-01-08T08:00:00+00:00

but it’s strong we want you

the very strongest of you

with a strong heart and strong eyes

beautiful but strong with all your blood.

He asks them to sing the hymn of praise especially for the women that until today had been little else than a stupid soul in a stupid body, but let us sing the hymn to women in its real version, not the one instituted by the enemies of our people.

To bring the world

into the world

now be a shapely woman . . .

Shit, people have got to stop speaking like that colonel of our shame who betrayed us by saying that the social place of women the political place of women is the zipper and the mattress. All the women applauded, sang his praises, they made him forget those kaki days when he used to say: “Only two people on this earth are friendly, my hernia and my mommy, the rest despise me, the rest betray me.” They spread their loincloths out in front of him, National Colonel, son of National Mom, they refer to him as Mom’s only son in spite of the rumors that go around and around again in that poor woman’s thighs, in spite of all those wicked tongues wagging and calling her the national whore, mother of twenty-seven illegitimate children all with herniated balls; they set off with him to tear down the brothels because down with shame, hurray for White hot women! And so it was the season when National Mom’s child went, with the Minister of Testicles Colonel Estanso trailing him, from district to district, from one township to another, smashing down buildings! But Colonel, don’t you know that sex is the poor man’s Bible—who said that? Shoot him, we’re here to destroy, so destroy! He was covered from head to toe in ash, snot, and drool. Destroy, destroy! All these shacks of my shame in which women sell themselves on the black market, going from door to door, he painted the legal notice himself: Tear down! And the infantrymen came along with him and helped him tear down the structures. He preached the Gospel according to his hernia: Thou shalt not sell your legs, and he gave them the following demonstration: the world shall become nothing but chaos, but screwing shall be the next heart.

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