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Song of the Initiate

All the wives of my father
 
pulled my mother to bits
 
But their children cannot dance
 
It is I who have taken my father’s stool
 
And my mother has become queen
 
All the wives of my father my
 
wives and servants of my mother.
 
 
The mother of those who cannot dance
 
has never borne children
 
Her children are nothing but epileptics
 
The initiate alone with the chief.
 
 
If only I were a river!
 
I would roll down all silvery
 
And in the compound of the non-initiate
 
I would become a swamp.
 
 
I am only a dealer in pigs
 
and in chickens
 
But if you have any pearls or little bells
 
I will buy them.
 
The only son alone
 
Is sure of his father’s stool.
 
The panther’s child does not fear the night
 
I can dance all the dances
And my mother eats nothing but the flesh of sparrowhawks. 

 
 
Dance Poetry
A comprehensive anthology
Edited by Alkis Raftis
Copyright 2012

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