What is everyone else doing? Chidi kicks in the new year as poet and agent provocateur, round one, preaching piety whilst the hungry Naija clergy – like Elmer Gantry preach prosperity in the same way that some of the commercial Hindu Gurus of the happy seventies, believing that Westerners were suffering from too much materialism, their mototo was,"Give me your money and I'll give you peace of mind!"
"While preachers preach of evil fates
Teachers teach that knowledge waits
Can lead to hundred-dollar plates
Goodness hides behind its gates
But even the president of the United States
Sometimes must have to stand naked" (Dr. Dylan)
On Wednesday, 4 January 2017 19:38:35 UTC+1, Chidi Anthony Opara wrote:
By Chidi Anthony OparaA New YearRolls in.A roll callCalled.Poets present.Preaching piety.(Poem presented as social service, all rights reserved)
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