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Insanity 2005
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What a year it has been A sweaty year That has made us swollen with discomfort Morose mood of a year EFCC went on rampage “Selecting†the merchants with protruding stomach Drama in the anti-corruption crusade Tafa Balogun, “lampooned and ridiculed†Yet, he came out triumphant He even promised to bounce back Mr. President inveigles us into a predicament So neatly that we can’t help joining In his laughter at us His anti-corruption – real and fake The snail that swallows another Will however have two tails
II No one swallows the phlegm To appease the pangs of hunger But this present government swallowed phlegm They allowed their senselessness swallow Chima Ubani One of the few committed comrades still standing They said the dead will have all the sleep necessary But I know Chima is not sleeping Can a child be baptized before he is born? The Apo six killings It is superbly funny When should we stop reducing men to bees? I mean the problem of shadow and substance The readmission of Chris Ubah to PDP The movement could not be without a cause I felt as if I understood it Now I am lost.
III The year has chronicled surging rage and despair From Belview to Sosoliso We witnessed the consequences of A long neglect in the aviation sector That saw the nation lost its airlines Metamorphosed from corrupt prostitute to virgin – Virgin Nigeria Meanwhile, we continue to rape The rule of law, public fund, the educational sector This brings out very simply How real and how incomprehensible things are We mourn We wipe our nose – their nose But was the strangers’ nose a true nose Or was it a false one? Ever changing – ever ugly A comic master piece
IV But those who defecate at night See the ghost grasshopper Alamieyeseigha has seen one Dariye will follow suit But, we ask, “Are they all we’ve got?†“We have to start somewhere†they said I am of a contrary opinion No distinction between the Duke and the Horse man All animals must be equal Enter 2007 I wish we will enter new scene of events No more “untouchables†Nothing but the fermentation of the present sub-acid humour Can save the nation from deferred collapse I may be right, I may be wrong I suppose you are? My father would say
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Posted by Robot| 13.12.2005 23:34