USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Poetic Thought

Dear Chidi,

Let the purveyors of malicious propaganda 

Perish in their own excrement and shameless

Sheikhs of fake news shriek their everlasting 

discontent.

That's what I says. 

The Ear  - by Louis MacNeice

There are many sounds which are neither music nor voice, 

There are many visitors in masks or in black glasses

 Climbing the spiral staircase of the ear. The choice 

Of callers is not ours. Behind the hedge 

Of night they wait to pounce. A train passes, 

The thin and audible end of a dark wedge. 

 We should like to lie alone in a deaf hollow

 Cocoon of self where no person or thing would speak;

 In fact we lie and listen as a man might follow 

A will o' the wisp in an endless eyeless bog,

Follow the terrible drone of a cockchafer, or the bleak 

Oracle of a barking dog.

https://voetica.com/voetica.php?collection=3&poet=693&poem=6869

On Wednesday, 8 June 2022 at 23:52:54 UTC+2 chidi...@gmail.com wrote:

The lord from Lagos

Or is it Iragbaji?

Strolled

To the soapbox,

Spoke a slurred speech

And with shaky hands

Snatched a mandate.

(C) Chidi Anthony Opara

#2022Poeticthought

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Chidi Anthony Opara is a Poet, IIM Professional Fellow, MIT Chief Data Officer Ambassador and Founder/Publisher of, www.publicinformationprojects.org)

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