Today my headache grew <br />toothache came to stay, strong <br />enough to make me call a dentist <br />my notes resemble those written <br />by the witches in Terry Pratchett’s <br />books, their medicinal plant infor- <br />mation interspersed with notes <br />on their state of health <br /> <br />Like my lines jotted down <br />during an ACALAN conference <br />writing down the chairman’s words <br />about a lingua franca for Africa, inter- <br />jecting my worries about my dis- <br />integrating hairstyle, my <br />conclusion is: I really <br />am a witch… <br /> <br />[By the way, I recommended Arabic as lingua <br />franca for Africa, since nobody knows it we’ll <br />all be equally disadvantaged…] <br /> <br />16 July 2009<br /><br />Margaret Alice<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/17-07-2009-i-am-a-witch/
