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Night Rain & Other Poems
In spite of rumours
mornings are darker than nights…
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The Streets Emptied Out, But Their Lungs
The virus is spreading as only viruses can,
but still, I swipe…
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Poet in the Time of Buhari
The poet stares long at the blank screen and the blinking cursor.
His mind wanders…
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Araromi
The paradox of Araromi
Is that everything plagued us…
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Love is a Plot Device & Ode to Encryption
And when you design
The ultimate insecticide…
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Ibadan Express
Bus driver loses control.
I tell him we paid him to get us to Ibadan…
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A Duet of the Going and the Gone
Kaka said a small pine tree sprouted from
the interment of her father…
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12th January, 2012
The world stood silent
That day we decided not to march…
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Friday Routine (& Two Other Poems)
We are here because our parents
Don’t track us with GPS…
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Within the Precincts of the Cliché (self-translated from the Yoruba)
Except in Dugbe,
where everything is up for sale.
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In Remembrance of Pisca (*within piece)
I remember now
how we watched Father pummel Pisca…
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On the Cusp of Voyage (& Martin, asked about lovers past, hands in a letter)
Tributaries of translocation trickle into-
this river of buses and cars…
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Identical Valleys
Frustration, a long and winding word I apologize for using in this poem, has…
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What could be burning on a Wednesday afternoon?
Akure cannot reject me
(being the land of my birth and birthers…
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On Ngugi
Ngugi, the Kenyan griot, sat us down
one cold evening at Kuto…
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An Extrapolation of Four Names
Ikulamberu
It is death we fear-
That makes us write wills…
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A Confession in three movements
Brethren,
I know this message to be true…
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Poet, when the door suddenly swings open
I confess that these lips have closed
around the nipples…
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Egbassey (*within piece)
I tell a prostitute I want to dance,
and she thinks I mean something else…
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Exchange by the River Ose
Tell me, man like Oedipus,
what you saw in your innermost chamber…
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Solar Eclipse & Two Other Poems
The moon,
In a bid to break out of the monotony of night…