it was playing in my head
persistently
earlier in the evening
as i jumped into the metsimotlhabe combi
after another hectic day at work
and immediately
i started jotting down some lines

combi notes

i call them
but for all my troubles

trying to rehearse it
tanza by stanza
it still would not assume any defined form
nothing definite
till i sat down
at last
to tease it out
lowly, slowly
from its nest
up there…
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