Hunger

By Teamhw Sbongujesu

The loan-shark is in possession

of my ID book.

I am behind in rent

and the landlord's finger is in my face,

between my eyes, every day.

I pay the price of a five-star hotel

yet the conditions don't deserve a single star.

It's dirty, it stinks. Doors and windows are broken,

like the lives of all the tenants, old and young.

The landscape is rough.

The grass is three metres tall.

We pass time by observing it closely

and concluding that it's greener

in one place than the other.

Here, none of us is better than the other.

We have all been behind in rent,

and we have all asked each other for food and money.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0796155259
• ISBN13: 9780796155252
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: African Books Collective
• Length: 50 Pages
• Weight: 0.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.3" x 8.0"