Glissade

But these precautions didn’t stop Ekene from dying in his sleep.

I believed, for once, that God wasn’t responsible for anything.

Because he was different, the bus conductor let a lofty hope bud within him, a hope too high for his type: love.

When the second punch meets K’s lips, he is still imagining this is not happening.

  & 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 …

Little Inhabitants The poet wakes in the middle of the night to find that his room, Barely enough for his lean body, is a megacity for the little Inhabitants. Roaches are going and coming, each one with A different sense of urgency, some slow as clumps of dew, Others civil servants in love with the …

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