[a first flurry of text] [fingers: at rest] [thinking] [thinking] [someone: “What are you doing?”] [ambient noise fills the evening] [listening] [listening] [inspiration stays displayed on a blank face] [blank words gather with the evening’s pace] [spaces] [spaces] [s p a c e s] [ ] Continue reading
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THE LAGOS BUS DRIVEN | A few sombre lines by Ayo Sogunro
First, the sweat—which gathering mass in the heat Doubles up, proportional to the frequency of bus-stops. Stopping? Pause. You curse. “Driver! Move this thing.” The syllables short and sharp. It’s always inevitable, This conflict of interest. The empty seats must be filled But the filled seats must be moved. “DRIVER! MOVE!” He heard: bus sways. … Continue reading
Facebook Message To An Old Friend | by Ayo Sogunro
well, i could cross this cyberspace and row over just to see your face and try to see if you recall the days of our infancy and we’ll share the ways we have tried to win this race of life, and plenty more! (But face- book is not physical) so i place my thoughts in … Continue reading
