Activities encompassed the game “Yahtzee” and watching video’s. On Sundays Bro loved to play pinball in cafes, a hobby for which she was once arrested. At one stage she attended the female mud wrestling championships, another forbidden activity. Saturday nights most of us partied at Pretoria’s gay club although Ms C never showed her face there so Bro seldom went with us. Amongst the more refined patrons of Skinner Street were members of Pretoria’s literary circles. One night Ailsa, James, Pierre and I attended a poetry reading in a quaint little artists’ colony called Rondegeluk (Circle of Happiness). Ailsa’s impressions are preserved in her poem Insight and Execution which first appeared in the literary magazine Die Tagtiger, waarby ingelyf is Graffiti en Ouma, Last Quarter 1982.
Insight and Execution For Pieter
Let’s get together, you know I enjoy it so. To rip them apart, not really the art, but the people that are new at any old do. It’s hysterically funny, isn’t he a bunny? And that one there, has no hair! We should spend more time together, not in the heather. We drink from the same cup, so we can send them all up. 9
