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Pre-reading
1.	A confession is usually an admission of wrongdoing or even slipping up so that one can be forgiven and have a fresh start. What do you think is necessary if such a confession is to work?
During reading
2.	As you read this “confession”, what are the signs that it is not really designed to admit a fault? What is the person doing if he is not confessing?

Confession

Chris van Wyk

i would

have brought

you

mulberries

but

they

threatened

to explode

their mauve

corpuscles

all over

my

best shirt

so

i ate them

Post-reading
3.	How does the title, “Confession” heighten the humour of what the person actually does?
4.	The lines of the poem are short, breaking up the sentence into small fragments. What does this suggest about how the person is speaking?
5.	The speaker suggests that he ate the mulberries in self-defence.
a)	Quote words that are chosen to make the mulberries seem dangerous. Explain.
b)	What do you think was the real reason he ate the mulberries?
6.	Have you ever been in a situation when you have had to explain away something you have done. What happened? See if you can tell the story in a humorous way in about half a page.