I can’t swim with the sharks
They’ll grab me by the hair
and bite off my breasts
Or maybe I’ll end up
Kept alive and fed
in a salty tank
on a platform
Caught
in the wave of déjà-vu of
Museums, movies and circuses
Amongst the exotic beings
The not-quite humans
Naturalized Natives
Frozen African warriors
Builders of Igloos
and
Sarah Baartman
The steatopygous woman
From South Africa
Who died of exposure
