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Niyi Juliad

niyijuliad@yahoo.com


Dec 26, 05 - 12:44 PM
AILING MAMMOTH

Cyclopean and comfortably cradled
he inhabits the trigger-point
of the black African space

He is a dying god
of ill-used fortunes
that brew self-induced sad pass

Self-appointed Big Brother
lives up to the true name
in actions daring and words grandiose

His swarms of swarthy scions
like sand of the sea
defy definite determination

The generous princely prince
of the black clan
sees not own foe in the self

Itchy hands oft-repeatedly dipped
into the cesspools of earth's secretion
depleted for love of loveless strangers

Foreign depositories heighten in time
serviced from un-returnable returns
from the earth’s crude favour

Fires of civil acrimony doused
in neighbours’ far-away lands, while
home-grown gall festers like septicaemia

The foxy men-in-cracy
conspire in cunning collusion, and
shoot the Behemoth in the foot

From the drugged slugs he bleeds
and trudges in tottering gait
totally depleted, totally ailing

Unwilling clinicians lack willing tools
clinically unclean, un-sterilized
for the styptic performance

Foreign loaners feast on dripping blood
“squeeze the fool more,” they urge
stranglehold heavy like cumber

The going songs are tear-jerkers
and the skies gather darkening clouds
who will stop the lachrymal heavens?

Except the One above the clouds


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