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.

Banana Crates & Wire Mesh

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Banana Crates and Wire Mesh spans several decades and sheds Mario d'Offizi's unique and often brutally honest light on a wide range of subjects, from the taboo to the mundane. Mario published his first poetry at an early age, but Banana Crates and Wire Mesh is his first anthology - it's a book that brings a lifetime of observations on the minutiae of South African life to the fore.

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Mario D'Offizi on the Victor Dlamini Literary Podcast
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Poetry

Buzzz

life in the late sixties
was a giant neon light

buzzzzzz buzzzzzz

buzz buzz
the purple hearts

buzz buzz
the black bombs

buzz buzz
the yellow dexies

buzz buzz
the acid trips

buzz buzz
the marijuana

buzz buzz
the mandrax pipes

now, some twenty years on
buzz buzz
my sons threaten to sue me for
sperm cell abuse

(thank God we ain’t living
in america)

 

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