Sweet talk
Drop that mask
Good friend,
Let us talk
About what happens
When the Niger meets the Benue
In the land of tangled shoals
About pawpaws
Sinfully ripe
Swinging, swinging, in the wind
About the viscous virtuosity
Of the tropical snail
Forever pouting its heavenly lips
About the spectacular banana K-10
King,yellow peril
In the cave of the mouth
About the rooster’s henward dance
In the fraying fringes
of December’s forest
About the mortar
And the pestle
bout the Ya-Ya
About the Yo-Yo
Drop that mask
Beloved Time to laugh and . . . .
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