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  Apr 2018 Oni Olusegun
Colm
Break the line
As the back of a mountain
To discover new ridges, peaks and valleys
Twist the water, break the fountain
And flow instead in unpredictable ways
That is what Mr. Estlin would say
Write Without Boundaries - EEC
Oni Olusegun Apr 2018
Love
Pure  passionate
Amazing  unwavering  ending
Scary  consuming  Cold  Sinful
Aching  haunting  appalling
Untimely  inevitable
Death
Oni Olusegun Mar 2018
When I was a watermelon
I thought I was pink
Now I see watermelons;
They are all green --
Maybe I am not as pink as i think
Maybe I will never be
Oni Olusegun Mar 2018
You might have heard a ******* claim
A snake swallowed thirty six million
Thirty six million government money from a government office
Please believe it
Please don't believe it
Its a ******* claim
A poetic one (at best)
A snake in a government house
What an allegory!
A snooty sneaky snake (Python, given the amount) snared money
What an alliteration!
It excreted the brief case
What a genius!
The story checks out after investigation
What an ending!
Nigeria
What a joke!
Sometimes I just wonder why Britain' gave Nigeria independence. This country is far from fit to rule itself
Oni Olusegun Mar 2018
Why take my bell
To give me a crown?
Why take my cot
To give me a Jungle,
A Lioness,
Three Cubs
Appetite for blood
But no shoulder
To shoulder the responsibilities?
Oni Olusegun Mar 2018
She cooks me the best
Continental dishes
Do I like the taste?
I do not know
No tastebud!

She loves me
To the moon and back
Can I feel the tingle?
I do not know
My heart knows no beat

She stabs me in the back
Can I feel the pain?
I do not know
No spinal Cord!

She is a man not a robot
Like a mad man dying alone
in the snow,she slowly withers--
Like a maize plant in dry season
  Feb 2018 Oni Olusegun
Zero Nine
Broke, sitting with half plate
Pasta, butter, spice
Shuffle through my old clothes
I used to look nice

What is nice, but smaller?
Smaller, smaller, still
String bean and potatoes
Go fine together

The grocer tries to tell me,
"Divide, conquer, divide."
"What is nice, but smaller?"

I guess the grocer's right
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