Xiluvaxoxonga

You can always tell from the wrapper if it is bubblegum, raspberry or banana... Before the smell gives it away, the spearmint will be wrapped in a dark green almost wax paper with red and navy stripes! It can be hard or really soft and mushy; depending on how long it has been sitting in a cookie jar at the Spaza shop. The wrapping paper can be stuck onto the chappie and if you are unlucky, you will chew both but won't die. Chappie is a common, cheap brand of chewing gum all colors wrapped in a colorful, blue and red pin stripe intercepted by a smiling squirrel. The burst of flavour when you chew a fresh one, is enough to get you addicted. Did I mention it comes in grape? It expands and fills your mouth while the flavour seeps through your nostrils and your sweetened saliva gushes and swirls around your mouth when you chew it. A really old one, after several teeth wrenching and grinding chews, also gets soft and mushy to a point where you forget it was stale, scaled with a white Lor...

Look at that nose! Look at those lips! Look at that behind! Those feet and those legs! I don’t want to look like that! I would rather look like my father, so lean and so handsome. The innocence of my girl child, so she said I cannot stand her! I Hate her! She possibly cannot be my mother! I am certain I am adopted! How can she scold me like that? Punish me like that? If she were really my mother, she would treat me differently. Be kinder, gentler. These are the adolescent years my child, so she said Your mother is the best, She always lends an ear. I can confide in her. YOU are really blessed! That cannot be farther from the truth. As the clock winds I look into the mirror with blood shot eyes. Crying uncontrollably, surrounded by all these women. My neighbour from next door, the mother from down the street; and the other woman from the corner house BUT my mother - WHERE is my mother through my tribulations? As they leave, she ushers them out, Thank you for coming, she sa...