Exploitation Of A Name

Exploitation of a Name There will soon be a line of ladies knickers coyly called Mindela, the sanctimonious will deny knowledge of this by those who care to protest? The Mandela name is gold dust and must be exploited before collective memories fail and a child will ask: Who was Mandela? “ Mandela! “Look up Wikipedia”, child. There is good wine made by an estate called Mandela´s, a relation that has the right to use the name. (the great man didn´t drink) Mandela chocolate, sweets and black puddings, all that can help sell anything, like beer, or booze so fiery it will give you the courage he had- if not for long. I will write a poem just the way the untouchable man would have liked it, of irony and smiles free of bitterness of the years he had to endure and still lose his name in the churning miasma of capitalism.