In September Zimbabwe tastes like grit in your teeth. Like orange Fanta gliding cold and sweet over your tongue.Like salty kapenta which moments beforehand were staring from your plate with sightless eyes.
It tastes like sadza, bland and thick.
Like sugary telephone pudding at the game park lodge. It tastes like the apples you eat in the backseat of a small extended cab pickup while bumping down a cratered single lane road.
It tastes like trail mix and granola bars you brought from home, a makeshift and welcomed lunch. It tastes like water you made sure came from a safe source.
It tastes like chicken fried so hard you cannot break or bend it. It tastes like pork and beans every morning for breakfast and strange sausages you pass along to someone hungry enough to appreciate them.
It tastes like pure spiritual milk in the midst of oppression.
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