You Are Not Alone
i know your pains — cloaked and costumed in capsules of electronic smiles. if the make-up of our minds was plastic, you’d have broken into Warsaw pieces. & if our…
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May 2021
24 posts
Life Hacks for an African Child Born in the 90s
a child must know what comes after a hard glare from his mother; one that becomes a brittle smile the very next second, a flicker that goes unnoticed, like NEPA…
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A Circus & The Morning After a Man was Caught for Keeping Dreadlocks, I Pray & Question 1
A Circus This is for the politicians, for the clamping of a mouth, for every pocket hoarding notes, for worn-out promises, for collateral damage, for those eyes refusing sight,…
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A Requiem for Bodies Reduced to Little Things & The Dance
A Requiem for Bodies Reduced to Little Things Playing aloud the song by Bob Nesta Marley Blending hope out of Babylon — as his voice punching the peak of…
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A Poem in Which I Am Everything that Calls You & Last Night
a poem in which i’m everything that calls you (after Boloere Seibidor’s Rebirth) the lecturer ambles into the classroom like an elephant & my shoulder sinks in anger. why…
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Elegy for a Brother Who Looks Like the Man in the Mirror & Anointing
Elegy For a Brother Who Looks Like the Man in the Mirror “Hell is a fabricated figment of imagination” — J. Cole i said this prayer every time…
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Violence Knows Me By Name
Violence found me far from the protest ground in my home where I was trying, and failing, to watch movies from my laptop. I was in the police station last…
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It Runs Deep
I knocked on the door too softly, almost reluctantly. My mind was miles away. “Who’s that who knocks like they are on their death bed? When last did you eat…
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A New Earth
They were supposed to be picking fruit, but they couldn’t resist getting frisky. Kemunto had been a school teacher, the buttoned-up type, but the end of the world had taught…
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One Too Many Souvenirs
No matter how rich you are, you must strip naked to be embalmed – Iya Teslim We will never know if my mother acquired this saying from mothers gone before,…
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