These your actors, The King's Men
This your stage, The Globe theatre
This your hometown, Stratford-upon-Avon
Plays that take us to Italy,
Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra
Ariel and Miranda, The Tempest
Venice and the merchant Shylock
surrounded by Venetian playboy revelers,
Christians? In truth, gangsters.
Here's Polonius, eavesdropping in beautiful
autumnal English, Hamlet's lost his wits,
dreaming of owls, topping a king.
These your plays, these your poems
Don't sell them for drink, sir,
Wise up, become a property developer:
Prospero estates, in the heart of Milan
and Verona; a new era of enchanted living,
inquire within, Romeo and Juliet.
Still Living on my Feet is the follow up to Tichaona Chinyelu’s first book, In the Whirlwind, which was rooted in a sense of hard-hitting revolutionary black love. However, in this sophomore effort, Tichaona brings the revolutionary essence from deep
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