Roadkill

Many a day I've seen road kill on Edendale Road. Actually at least once a month I see a fresh specimen, victims of hit and runs. Never buried, arguably mourned. The chickens I can guarantee are mourned by hungry dissatisfied stomachs lingering in nearby settlements. Pardon me, I am told to edit this blog and call this road Moses Mabhida/ Selby Msimang road. Amandla

Anyway, nobody removes the carcass on the road. Not even the municipal people who burn the grass on the sidewalk.  We all run over it till it disappears dispersed within the treads of our tyres, the smell of fresh death reminding us how lucky we are to be well, alive unlike them.

So many have fallen on this road. So many forgotten! So this blog is a tribute to all. 

To the dogs:

Tiger (2004- 2011)

Rex (2009- 2011) Bet you weren't as fast as you thought ey?

Spotty (2008- 2011)

Danger (2009-2011)

Puppy (2006-2011)

It’s obvious that your masters weren't as loyal to you as you were to them. For that I am sorry. Perhaps your future generations will have a better fate.

To the cats: 

Jimmy (2010-2011) The nine lives thing was a hoax. But you had to go and find out for yourself didn’t you?

Kati (2008-2011) 

Please don’t come to us in our dreams.

The chickens:

Ranger (Dec 2010- March 2011)

Mlenzana (June 2010- 18 August 2011)

Why did you cross the road?
I know you guys weren’t referred to by name, but you knew your worth didn’t you? So did I.

And to the countless unnamed but equally violated and abandoned that came long before you, whether you had masters or wondered as free souls.  Rest In Peace. Or as our minister of Sport once stated: “Rest in Peaces”.