ENGL 1F97 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Ingrid De Kok, Body Politic
23 Dec 2015
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The yellow-billed kite takes its height from pylons as it rigs its wings like a ragged sail over carrion on tar. Everyone knows death is on the road, the carcass of a car left as a reminder of an accident long ago. With the comfort, the pleasure, with the wine and money, one to the other passes the travellers" number-plated disease, disease of acronyms. The poem makes explicit the multiple associations of freight towards which the section"s title gestures. Places emphasis on the high rates of hiv infection at major points of transportation interchange such as newcastle in natal and beaufort west in the cape. The country"s freight literally the actual goods being conveyed across the land by the drivers of transport vehicles. Metaphorically, the heavier freight that is being. Muscle[d] over the mountains, onto the plains is the burden of the hiv/aids virus carried by the loaded and lonely drivers (ll.
