I agree with Professor JUI about vulgarity not for the same reasons BUT simply because it makes me to think thoughts I will need to go for confession on Saturday. It is not the poem and all those parts we learned in Biology he kept torturing me with. I can tell you that this poem NOT the writer has'led me into temptation and delivered me into evil'. I did not know my self-will is this weak but the poem has "helped" me understand how my mind works when I am confronted with texts of things I have in short supply.
Professor Folu, will you agree that the media effects theory explains my situation? I kept reading and forgot the DELETE on my keyboard. Please keep poets like this away from me during mid-week when I have so much to do and none to undo!!!
Is there a Father on this list who can pray for me? I have sinned because of what I allowed my eyes to see and the scenes the images conjured in my mind. How can you do this to an innocent man..C.A.Opara....it is not nice at all and I blame you
Kole
--- On Wed, 8/18/10, Igietseme, Joseph (CDC/OID/NCPDCID) <> wrote:
From: Igietseme, Joseph (CDC/OID/NCPDCID) <jbi8@cdc.gov>
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - RE: - Demands Of The Goddess (Poem)
To: NIgerianWorldForum@yahoogroups.com, "USA Africa Dialogue Series" <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Cc: NaijaObserver@yahoogroups.com, "NIDOA" <NIDOA@yahoogroups.com>, "naijapolitics@yahoogroups.com" <NaijaPolitics@yahoogroups.com>, afenmai@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, August 18, 2010, 5:39 PM
Femi Oyesanya, Would you not consider it my revered freedom of expression when I indicate to you or anybody else that I don't appreciate vulgarity in my environment? I believe I have that right. If sanction is your interpretation of my freedom of expression that I detest vulgarity, what would you call your admonition suggesting that I can't frown at what I don't like. Many times we mix up legal issues with commonsense and mundane issues; it is a disservice to communal living and interaction. Take care. JUI From: NIgerianWorldForum@yahoogroups.com [mailto:NIgerianWorldForum@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of femi oyesanya
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 4:21 PM
To: NIgerianWorldForum@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [NIgerianWorldForum] Re: [NaijaPolitics] RE: - Demands Of The Goddess (Poem) But wait! If vulgarity not free expression? Are there minors here ? Why the sanction ?
From: Noyo Edem <>
To: naijapolitics@yahoogroups.com; naijaobserver@yahoogroups.com; usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com; chidi.opara@gmail.com; nidoa@yahoogroups.com; nigerianworldforum@yahoogroups.com
Cc: afenmai@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wed, August 18, 2010 1:28:01 PM
Subject: [NIgerianWorldForum] Re: [NaijaPolitics] RE: - Demands Of The Goddess (Poem) Agreed. This must have been approved, because he is not known to be vulgar in his previous poems. No more vulgarity of this nature to the forums, please.
On Wed Aug 18th, 2010 12:32 PM EDT Igietseme, Joseph (CDC/OID/NCPDCID) wrote:
>Chidi Anthony Opara,
>I must openly confess that I have often browsed your lucid poetry and prose that anchor their plots on everyday human chores and experience; the imageries you capture span the individual, the family, the local govts, the state and nation, especially the daily experiences of the mis-ruled and mis-led in our contemporary African societies. In all, I have silently commended your literary genius on its merit and level sophistication vis-à-vis the works of the great minds of our times (Soyinka, JP Clark etc) and the literary genius of yester-years (Shakespeare, Chaucer, William Wordsworth, Oliver Goldsmith etc).
>
>Now, I realize that genius sometimes exhibits undisciplined or amoral excesses; and as you know, unrestrained and unregulated habits can be uncomfortably unruly and distastefully repugnant. And that is how I evaluate your present poem, entitled "Demands of the goddess", in which you painted a picture of the act of sex by humans in the most shameful interaction between a man (Iyiafor the god), the woman (Iyieke the goddess) and the component parts of the reproductive system, the penis, labia, clitoris, vagina (paradise) and the pubic hair (lawn), that culminates in an orgasm (when the penis bows in meek surrender To demands of the goddess; Time for flaccid penis, Relieved of power To wear genial demeanor....etc). What a mess!
>Frankly, without attempting any sanctimonious posture, I am moved to say that this poem is an epitome of genius misplaced and misapplied for shameless vulgarity, breach of public decency, and senseless trash-talk. It is juvenile and distasteful; and my advice is that your children should not inherit a literary legacy that includes these dirts. Thank you and take care. JUI
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