Surgery Kindergartens stay still.
Pathogenic juices of dense pawpaw
Whacked on your heads
May have seeped into your fontanelles
Corrupting your angelic infancies,
You must stay still!
Let hell arise to carcass form No biscuits until scooped, the rupturing fluids.
Chosen the best procedure
Scalpels’ sutures will never close
But before your vulture folks honk
You would have been fenced off
And no more shall you stone your mates.
Oya, become a train and file out
One by one!
After the Visit
His every word of stone
Gaveled our sandy lives
A faint, hissing, heave,
And our dignities jump
On the bed of death-sleep,
Since into us, ending deters
Were cascading concretes.
But today, a little while now,
Aberration came to town
With tasers of defiance.
Mummified sparked in the
Merciless booming and we
Jumped free!
Yemi Soneye was born in 1991. He is presently in his final semester at a Nigerian University. He has appeared in Sunday Sun newspaper, Nigeria and Sahara Reporters. He blogs at http://yemisoneye.wordpress.com. His works are forthcoming in different literature journals.
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