CLARION REVERSION
House inundated with loquacity
Infested with ribaldry and insensibility
Ejecting thick white lice
Typical of ‘Agbada’ seats and politics
Like progenitors ab initio
Like soap-box promises and provision
The house propagates moribund tongues
For the neophytes pushed to delapidity,
For the esoteric ‘Agbada’ green white politics
Hysteria movement to oblivion
Thus, evidence of poor strata quality exhibited
Salvaged by Hejira to party iconoclast
Politician! Your clarion echo to reversion
Of many calendars of military oppression.
FAREWELL TO BIRTH CONTROL
Natural nature rules unruffled
Baby born between best bets
Bread, buttered cautiously, but
Bade farewell to family sanity.
Pride of promise fulfilled
Product of sweet raw times
Alumna of first class schools
But negation of interests.
In the mother’s elastic sack
A pride of many.
In real contact with the world,
A pride of many.
For personal safety family name and link,
Heads, efforts together linked.
For the immediate, and posterity,
Heads, efforts together meshed.
But child!
Why symbols of mundanity and putrefaction
Dome of uncensored talks
Prey of the wolves, under and over teen:
Why bellicose, amorous and raw
Consider the best bets
Consider family sanity and pride,
Consider alma mater and ideals.
Why perch from arms to thighs?
As a tyre, you wear your threads.
Like steel, you rust.
Like a prostitute, you stir the pot
Bidding farewell to family name and sanity.
TRAPPED IN THE SERVICE
Compromise conditions with cause.
Tomorrow’s uncertainty is certain.
Trapped like a tramp,
One is found trotting the micro mundi
Oral joggling those with disciples
Rhetorics, quotations, illusions and explanations
With deep impressions formally formed.
