We can make it

if we try

just to be alive

is a natural high

there’s no high

like the “Most High.”

But when you come down

I promise to levitate

and meet you

at the Thermo,’

where gasses exchanged and

trade like currency

and the ozone

is doing push-ups

preparing for proper retaliation

for what we’ve done to her

Or maybe I’ll meet you

at the “Merso'”

where Jacob was

held in a dream

as he beheld Angeles

ascending and descending

Or maybe I’ll meet you

at the Strato,’

where the mediator of

the new covenant

was taken up

and last reported

to be seen

Or maybe I’ll meet you

at the Tropo,’

where the…

… “prince of Persia,”

withstood a messenger

that came to

minister to Daniel

queue Gabriel that

elephant entrance and

stopped the non-sense

like a high wall

in a quiet community

We can make it

if we try

I mean, just

to be alive

is a natural high

there’s no high

like the “Most high.”

But when you come down

I promise to levitate

and meet you

up thur

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Peculiar "Ph D" Khumalo, born and bred (and buttered) in White City, Soweto, the liveliest township in Africa in 1987. Attended Boarding School at Bophelo Impilo and Matriculated in 2007. While his erudite endeavours do not venture beyond Matric, he had long been told he had a way with words, a hype he still has a hard time believing. "Of all the pleasures of life, I relishes nothing more than a conversation over coffee" ☕