Lost Things
Ever since Glory and Gloria matured into children old enough to envision the appearance of evil, their mother told them how evil Mr Okoro was. She described his evil with…
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The Age of Friction
I This is what should happen, or rather, what they say happens, when your life starts to wane. It begins with the hairs on the head, because that is the…
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The Children Won’t Go Hungry
Njoro was drunk again. She could hear him and his drinking buddies singing very loudly and in the wrong key those old school songs they loved. They were probably in…
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Ode to Homeliness & Other Poems
WHAT IT IS ABOUT NAMES every word i say is an alley between two walls [worlds] it’s the story of my name as melodies void of recognition as the stench…
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Dear Brother
(After Hassan Taiwo) for my brother, Ariyo Sodiq Bodies wrinkled into the hands of time, flung into different paths like the dispersal of birds at the throw of small stones…
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The Fetus or O Feto
Translated by Cliff E. Landers THE FETUS It’s true, that fetus lying there on the ground wasting away in the middle of the garbage, was mine, yes sir, why should…
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Babylon is a Bitch
That doctor’s surgery was always full, but it was made worse today by the start of the Christmas holidays. It needed only one child to come down with a…
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