Today my headache grew
toothache came to stay, strong
enough to make me call a dentist
my notes resemble those written
by the witches in Terry Pratchett’s
books, their medicinal plant infor-
mation interspersed with notes
on their state of health
Like my lines jotted down
during an ACALAN conference
writing down the chairman’s words
about a lingua franca for Africa, inter-
jecting my worries about my dis-
integrating hairstyle, my
conclusion is: I really
am a witch…
[By the way, I recommended Arabic as lingua
franca for Africa, since nobody knows it we’ll
all be equally disadvantaged…]
16 July 2009
Margaret Alice
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/17-07-2009-i-am-a-witch/
