By: Ayobami Kayode Tijani ah’mad.
In this office,
we still have troops of baboons
cleaning their buttocks filled with faeces with looted funds.
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At hundred and one,
snakes are not yet done swallowing the nation’s money —
the wild isn’t expecting them anytime soon.
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Today, men in black have built more houses —
on roads that display the map of Africa on them —
these men no longer collect old naira notes but crispy ones.
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This hungry poet with sunken eyes
wishes the colony of rats feasting on the books of our dreams a happy in-dependence day.
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For making the governance of this nation a family affair,
our “legislathief body” deserves a paradise on earth;
A paradise made of wooden materials.
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Another year of exchanging vote for two cups of rice
Another era of tussle between poverty
and those who educate the nations
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Again, another phase of faces facing the outside world till father land is completely stripped off his giantess.
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After today’s celebration,
tell those who are out to deflate the protruding bellies of lies of our “sicknators” that
the bellies of our “politrickcians” are like salamander limbs; when you cut them they regrow.
Ayobami Kayode Tijani ah’mad is a student interested in writing and academics. He is a third year Literature in English student at Usmanu Danfodio University, Sokoto. He hails from Ibadan, Oyo state, Nigeria. When not studying, he is experimenting writing styles on diverse aspects.
