Tag: generation
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THE ACTIVIST
Her little hands scrawl circles. She places an assortment of toys inside them – Lego, a pencil. a toy truck. She babbles in words that make sense to only her. She looks up seeking recognition for a job well done. I nod and smile and say that’s lovely. She accepts it and begins the process…
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LOCAL HERO
‘Always was a wayward child, that one.’ ‘This is a little something more than wayward.’ ‘I remember him growing up around here. Always in trouble, stealing sweets, ringing doorbells.’ ‘I’m not sure that childhood pranks would lead to this.’ ‘You gotta stop ’em when their young. Learn ’em early to respect people.’ ‘I wonder how…
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THE SECRET
Father ranted on, waving the newspaper around in disbelief. ‘More rights?! Why should they get more rights? Who says they deserve ’em? I tell you, this country will fall to pieces soon enough if this happens.’ His violent bluster afforded me the opportunity to swiftly and discreetly scoop a lamb chop off my plate and…
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ROOTS
Ma roots is in Barbados, so ma Mama tells me all d’time. ‘Yo was born there, Ah was born there, yo grandaddy was born there. Dat’s where yo is from.’ Funny ting is, Ah feel no connection to dat far off place at all. We left there when Ah wasn’t even one year old, part…
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AVENUE OF PEACE
And now the light at the end of the avenue calls, the journey almost complete. At one end, back that way, new seeds are growing, young saplings stretching from the earth to which I must return. Once young myself, I have walked the avenue of my life until the end. There have been mistakes along…
Iain Kelly 