| by Awa Innocent Ndah | |
| Published on: Mar 23, 2007 | |
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| Type: Poetry | |
| https://www.tigweb.org/express/panorama/article.html?ContentID=11755 | |
| They are sick and thought to be scary, Their breath is contagious because Like true chop-chairs, They have been using the liquid of life to quench The hellish appetite of their pharyngeal cavities. Use the fat white spaghettis from the bodies Of those they stole their remaining days To ease their digestion, and the urine of those They stole their sanity for their champagne. Like Sigmund Freud’s intuitive psychologist, Scare them into one of the abysses they dug And make it worse than Daniel’s. Play with them like brats do with colourful balloons. Make them dread you more By discouraging them from being discouraging And giving them more reason to believe that their favorite Game is in sight. Restrict their parametre And make the rules of the game more rigid, Just as they like it, Prick their psychics with their souvenirs and Bruise their thoughts with their claws. Contaminate their cloths with their lice, Their beds with bugs And transform their chateaux into Shamanic mental asylums; The shaman’s shrine. « return. |
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