Glissade

We know that visiting a military dictator to seek pardon for a coup plotter is no small feat. Soyinka says the visit was your idea. Where did you get the courage?

She knew it was me who took our stepmom’s bottle of kayan mata and poisoned it.

  & though I have lived so long in darkness, tonight I climb out of the cave to look up at the moonlit sky that sees me first and smiles God knows, happiness and the sky long to see me like villagers yearning for the moon to step out Tonight I smelt my aches, shapeshift …

Don’t be naïve. Since when have I told you I’ve stopped scamming? He knows about me.

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