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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">LIT</journal-id>
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<journal-title>LITERATOR - Journal of Literary Criticism, Comparative Linguistics and Literary Studies</journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="ppub">0258-2279</issn>
<issn pub-type="epub">2219-8237</issn>
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<publisher-name>AOSIS</publisher-name>
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<article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">LIT-40-1600</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.4102/lit.v40i1.1600</article-id>
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<subject>Litera</subject>
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<article-title>Twee gedigte</article-title>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
<contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7497-6151</contrib-id>
<name>
<surname>Jansen van Rensburg</surname>
<given-names>Fanie</given-names>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="AF0001">1</xref>
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<aff id="AF0001"><label>1</label>Private, Potchefstroom, South Africa</aff>
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<corresp id="cor1"><bold>Corresponding author:</bold> Fanie Jansen van Rensburg, <email xlink:href="fvanrensburg@soetdoring.co.za">fvanrensburg@soetdoring.co.za</email></corresp>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>20</day><month>08</month><year>2019</year></pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2019</year></pub-date>
<volume>40</volume>
<issue>1</issue>
<elocation-id>1600</elocation-id>
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<date date-type="received"><day>07</day><month>03</month><year>2019</year></date>
<date date-type="accepted"><day>11</day><month>07</month><year>2019</year></date>
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<copyright-statement>&#x00A9; 2019. The Authors</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2019</copyright-year>
<license license-type="open-access" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">
<license-p>Licensee: AOSIS. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License.</license-p>
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<title>ietsmaak</title>
<verse-group>
<verse-line>als is effens in sy lewe, hy hoop en vra</verse-line>
<verse-line>om gees en liggaam bymekaar te hou</verse-line>
<verse-line>dis al wat nodig is</verse-line>
</verse-group>
<verse-group>
<verse-line>ouderling: jy&#x2019;s sonder werk, of hoe?</verse-line>
<verse-line>diaken: ons kan help, al is dit min</verse-line>
<verse-line>domenis: wat is, wat skort daar op die rak?</verse-line>
<verse-line>&#x2013; daar&#x2019;s darem sout innie pot, broers</verse-line>
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<sec id="s0002">
<title>Passing</title>
<verse-group>
<verse-line>Apartheid was &#x2019;n knypbaas</verse-line>
<verse-line>ons geriewe</verse-line>
<verse-line>bordjies is gebruik</verse-line>
</verse-group>
<verse-group>
<verse-line>My ouma het gepass</verse-line>
<verse-line>hair en complexion is gemeet</verse-line>
<verse-line>strande, skool en kerk</verse-line>
<verse-line>as dit by kuier kom</verse-line>
<verse-line>een bruine in die spierwit hemel</verse-line>
</verse-group>
<verse-group>
<verse-line>Die dag breek aan</verse-line>
<verse-line>die beste hospitaal</verse-line>
<verse-line>weg is ouma</verse-line>
<verse-line>Waar is haar familie?</verse-line>
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<sec id="s0003">
<title>for white</title>
<verse-group>
<verse-line>elke mens was iewers ingedeel</verse-line>
<verse-line>was maar tweedeklas</verse-line>
<verse-line>om ons daar doer te hou</verse-line>
<verse-line>sy kon by witheid baat</verse-line>
</verse-group>
<verse-group>
<verse-line>sy het die potloodtoets geslaag</verse-line>
<verse-line>witgoed was nou hare</verse-line>
<verse-line>moes ons katvoet loop</verse-line>
<verse-line>hul sou vir ouma uitsmyt</verse-line>
</verse-group>
<verse-group>
<verse-line>ouma is nou werklik siek</verse-line>
<verse-line>was een vir egte wittes</verse-line>
<verse-line>sy&#x2019;t uitgepass as wit</verse-line>
<verse-line>het witmense gewonder</verse-line>
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<fn><p><bold>How to cite this article:</bold> Jansen van Rensburg, F., 2019, &#x2018;Twee gedigte&#x2019;, <italic>Literator</italic> 40(1), a1600. <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.4102/lit.v40i1.1600">https://doi.org/10.4102/lit.v40i1.1600</ext-link></p></fn>
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