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Channel Esther: South Africa Chronicle #7
by Esther Cohen
WHAT WE SEE (REDUX)
Table Mountain
right in front of us.
Does that mean
we should climb up?
Last night
in a restaurant
I might have seen
Matthew McConaughey.
We see what we
think we know.
Homeless woman
followed us
two nights in a row.
I don’t want money
she said. What
I want is for you
to listen.
To me.
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