1984

The starving Artist

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Violet Makomborero University of the Western Cape

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Poetry, Creative writing

Abstract

there is a fasting of truth, a starving of words
a parched parchment in the throat of the pages
there is a grumbling of hunger in
boney writers
refusing to fatten on fable, gossip or false promises
they no longer lick their fingers with the thoughts of delusions ...

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2025-07-17

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Makomborero, V. (2025). 1984: The starving Artist. WritingThreeSixty, 8(1). Retrieved from https://www.epubs.ac.za/index.php/w360/article/view/2955

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Vol. 8 No. 1 (2025): WritingThreeSixty: Africa in Perspective: Contemporary Issues in Arts and Humanities

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POETRY

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