Mario d'Offizi

Mario d'Offizi is a Cape Town based writer and poet. He is also assistant editor of Sawubona magazine.

Mario's work has featured in many publications over the years and his writing - prose and poetry - has been critically acclaimed thanks to its unfailing honesty and the warmth of his poetic voice.



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"...a searing look at growing up on the other side of the tracks, around the bend and up the wall. I am not easily moved by memoirs, but d'Offizi's story left me reeling on more than one occasion." - Ben Trovato

"If you read no other African writer this decade, read this one...you'll laugh with him, cry with him, mourn with him, rejoice with him and ultimately triumph with him." - Leadership Magazine

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Mario D'Offizi on the Victor Dlamini Literary Podcast
the tabloid
Monday, 11 May 2009 09:09

The Evolution of Revolution



The Revolution is not dead! Long live the revolution of permanent evolution

of the souls and minds of man and woman. Earth's a hatchery, souls are bred

there ain't no dead, Fred, no matter what who said what. The revolution ain’t dead;

the revolution is alive with new life, new living, new breath, not death.

 

It's epitomized in the spirit and the power of the minds of the people;

moving in the streets in fluid jive to mesmerise the inner eyes of Truth.

It's epitomised in the tears and the spears of the souls of the people - fuck their colour- what colour's the soul, what kind's the mind? - where ALL the people will find the will to rise to realise the right to fight the new order: the monopolies, not the police;

the fat-cats and Corporate rats that bleed us with their greed and feed on our need

and if you don't believe it you're blind as a bat. You blind indeed that's that;

the only solution is economic revolution, and already we've planted the seed

 

We've fought the revolutions: industrial, political, religious and the racial

and written our freedom in blood.

Now the final solution is an economic revolution so the people can rise from the mud.

 

Last modified on Monday, 23 August 2010 09:19

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  • Comment Link andrew Thursday, 26 August 2010 13:51 posted by andrew

    VIVA!

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  • Comment Link andrew Thursday, 26 August 2010 13:51 posted by andrew

    Viva la revolution !

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