By: Tendai R Mwanaka

Aftermaths of

garbage tossed about, sewage rotting.

Dirty water, empty stomachs,

empty lives, empty beings.

This garden is

a history of

thousands of them.

Political loose canons

living in the exclusive suburbs.

But in the dusty, populated

Budiriro’s streets

Crammed thoughts like bombs are

waiting to explode-