USA Africa Dialogue Series - The Square Brims With Banalities

(Poem By: Chidi Anthony Opara)

 

It's going to be a long night,

Longer than most.

It's laced

With the lullabies of morons,

With loquacity of loose tongues.

 

The moon slumbers

Behind the dark clouds,

The square

Brims with banalities.

 

It's going to be a long night,

It's laced

With the crows

Of castrated cocks.

The footsteps of agwu

Foretell more anarchy.

 

It's going to be a long night,

It's laced

With lynch of liberties.

The lynch mob

Gives the garlands of gloom.

 

 

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