Morning After! – Adewale Sobowale

Some people might not know I’ve given up on Buhari. Why shouldn’t I? Ore kinni’pa se fun’di? A kuku’joye san j’enu mi o ka’lu lo! I believe he’s either being wicked or he’s not aware of the situation of things in the country he’s failed to rule well. I don’t want to say he’s already…

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Straitjacket! – Adewale Sobowale

I protest conventionRefuse to be prisonedBy societal idealsNot necessarily ideal! Believing more than ChristAt Christmas!Giving to the poorShould be everyday! At turn of new yearTurn I a new leafFor few minutesThen resumeMy old waysWhich is always! Society has set dateFor Christ’s deathAfter EasterOne can withdrawFor a yearCommitting all crimes! On Valentine’sWe’ll findLost loveTurn to lustVery…

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After fifty! by Charles Gondoso

Photo credit: Hodges Figgis After fifty, the body stops sending polite emails and begins issuing official memos. You wake up one morning and discover that your knees now have opinions. Your back has started keeping records. Your blood pressure has developed ambitions. Somewhere inside you, cholesterol is quietly building a retirement home along your arteries…

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C-12 could ease some refugee claims says says Diab!

Photo credit: Yahoo News Canada’s Immigration Minister Lena Diab has said the changes to the refugee status claim process proposed in the government’s border and immigration bill are “better for the applicants,” even as multiple organizations attack the plans. The Canadian Press reports that the bill proposes to bar people that came to Canada more than a year…

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Lenten Season! – Adewale Sobowale

Fast for forty days,Masses fast everyday.Awe ti b’awe nle,Biribiri gan la ngba! We already spent,Without being sentAeons in fast,Cos we lack. So when you sayWe must pay,Through fasting,We are smiling. Already we’re hungeredCos we ponderedOver nothing to eat,We have no wheat. We are prayingWhile picking,The left oversNot to be picked by others! Dikko was prophetic!…

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Demoncrazy! – Adewale Sobowale

Turn by turnWe dey run.Great idea I have,Give them crumbs,They’ll worship you.Little knowingWhat you’re givingBelongs to all. Militocrazy!Khakistocrazy!Agbadacrazy!Civilianocrazy!Chopintocrazy! All na craze!A no wan craze o?OK!Peopletocracy!Massestocracy!Who is straight? If you no wan craze,Stop the gaze.Free your sense,Stop being dense.Must we dieFrom their lies? @as 021318

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