London Tailor! by Adewale Sobowale

Away we go;

Our sense of purpose to find;

That our homes fail us to find;

Not even relevance:

Only in our various Londons we can shout –

Eureka!

Londons in Uk, Americas, France, Belgium, Germany,

Etcetera;

Some of us would have even gone to fight on the side of Russia;

You know to be abroad is to find relevance and be relevant;

Even west coastal countries like Ghana, Togo, Dahomey,

Abroad is abroad!

See our politicians;

Is relevance not in Chatham?

They go there for gari kongo;

They get oyel there;

Jobs for the masses boku there;

Up NEPA nko?

O tun nbu’ya tisa;

E dey there jaburata!

Anything not made in London;

Just can’t be original;

Even our senses,

Are London-made!

We produce crude oil in Pota;

We know it’s no rocket science;

Refineries to instal here;

But seeking relevance-

We shuttle to our Londons!

Coming back –

With our senses reset;

We go doing what a local wouldn’t have imagined;

Corruption!

It wouldn’t have existed in their dictionary

if it wasn’t in their history!

Like Oso,

We know him much more than his mama;

We are a step ahead!

We have gone hyper-

Hyper corruption!

Hyperinflation!

Hyper poverty!

And for chosen few-

They live in hyper wealthiness!

@as 012723

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