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138 · May 2020
OSOGBO, READ MY COMPLAINT!
Tosin Atoyebi May 2020
One fateful day,
I flew far, and far away,
From a spindle, unscrewing the bolt in my nut
Peace, patience, gentleness, generosity had fled
Spindle verged lousy replacement,
Mother flung me into a luminous tomb

Here are the movies!
The thrilling movies of tellurians,
In the tomb I was flung.

On seat, I spectated as a cinephile
Cobra venoms, I watched single file
Nascent awareness, dripping white!

I loathe talebearers!
It seemed they were absent
Behind my shutters, engines roared into a turnpike,
human chirped even under the twilights
The house; rooms and passages seemed placid

One day gone,
My doorstep was furnished with gongs
Talebearers weren't far from us
They were right there, peeping from walls
Bevy of women at my doorstep for conference
Hadn't they mistook preference?

As the days shrinks,
I becomes piqued as engines still brushes...
Rotund, slender and bony women glues buttoms
To my doorstep, chirping, that burns my inside!

Why had mummy flung me into a wrong tomb?
I never asked for where zero quiet loomed
At the yawp of talebearers, books becomes blank
At the rev of engines, ears stuffs with clanks

Could the shoes of intellect be polished
When the aspirational buckle had been damaged?

Being a nerd in Osogbo, requires jungle's lodge
'Why didn't you fling me into its jungle'
‘I hardly assimilate, when I study!'
‘Can't there be any remedy?'...
Gander vitally waddled into water.....
She was about beating me with anodyne brows!
82 · May 2020
The Tool Of Going
Tosin Atoyebi May 2020
Coconut of butter on delays,
Grinding cascading millets!
Haven't you been catapulted yet?
I mean, sky high, above these cloudy heavens!

Spiralling clouds, clutching volitions,
fading fantastic thoughts.
Sages! why should moistened eyes be blindfolded before these crispy binoculars?

The binoculars, assuming they functions.
Blindfolded eyes, assuming they unveils.
Blurry eyes will be as limpid as crystals.
Bleak hearts will orbits a recycling nirvana.

Oh, The binoculars of glory!
Owning one In gone quest would make no routes.

— The End —