{"id":13844,"date":"2025-09-29T14:31:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T13:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/applesandsnakes.org\/?p=13844"},"modified":"2025-09-29T14:44:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T13:44:33","slug":"memory-bhunu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/applesandsnakes.org\/2025\/09\/29\/memory-bhunu\/","title":{"rendered":"Memory Bhunu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Describe yourself in 3 words\u2026<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Part-time philosopher\/ full-time goof<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What inspires you?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Everything really \u2013 family, friends, the people I\u2019m in community with, the moments I witness<br>day by day that feel like more than what they are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tell us about your worst ever gig?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>It was an event I was invited to read at \u2013 the event wasn\u2019t really advertising me or about<br>me, I mention this just to make myself feel better about what I\u2019m about to say. Only 1 person came, so I was reading to that person and the 3 organisers. There had been quite deep conversation and it had to be cut short so I could read. I felt way too awkward to actually stand up and perform \u2013 the space also wasn\u2019t set up to make that easy but I was being paid to read and I actually wanted to so I did so awkwardly in my chair. The funniest bit is that I brought a bunch of my pamphlets hoping to sell them and left with exactly the same amount I\u2019d arrived with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What\u2019s your number one poetry pet peeve?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>People who come just to perform and then leave. I get it if you\u2019re travelling from city to city<br>and have to catch the last train, but if you want people to give you their time and attention<br>as an audience member, you have to be willing to give it back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What are your favourite words?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Fickle (I love this word all the time), incongruent, fleeting, juxtaposition, still, booky, MAD!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What piece of advice would you give to your younger self?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>It all comes together in the end. You won\u2019t be able to see how till it does, but it will and it<br>will keep coming together forever because nothing is fixed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">If you could only eat one food for the rest of your life, what would it be?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a really mean question. I\u2019m gonna do breakfast, dinner and dessert. 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The ones that when you bite into, the juice dribbles down your chin\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-13844_fb06ab-44 .kt-block-spacer{height:60px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-13844_fb06ab-44 .kt-divider{border-top-width:1px;height:1px;border-top-color:#eee;width:80%;border-top-style:solid;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-spacer aligncenter kt-block-spacer-13844_fb06ab-44\"><div class=\"kt-block-spacer kt-block-spacer-halign-center\"><hr class=\"kt-divider\"\/><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/applesandsnakes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Memory-ARVON-X-AS-131-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14325\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Memory Bhunu<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Memory Bhunu is a Zimbabwean born poet and creative raised in the Black Country. 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