Dictatorship Poems

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Squatting Boys
by Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

They squatted under the rising sun,
testifying to the brutal energy of a dictator,
their scrotums bloated like calabashes

Diseased toes trampled on the
olive leaf once held aloof by sane comedians.
Banners praised the guards of the doorposts of hell.

Their aura smells foul —
Squatting boys —tied tail to tail for

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Dictator
by Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

Dining and wining in chalice and
unfathomable china,
her throat swallows gold –
Lady Midas – who sat on domes
and saw ages in faceless waters,
reaping soils of exhaustion
and breaking sacrifices, chewing egg shells
and lightning the night...

Look, there’s a yolk in her throat!

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Dictator
by Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

Dining and wining in chalice and
unfathomable china,
her throat swallows gold –
Lady Midas – who sat on domes
and saw ages in faceless waters,
reaping soils of exhaustion
and breaking sacrifices, chewing egg shells
and lightning the night...

Look, there’s a yolk in her throat!

......

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Squatting Boys
by Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

They squatted under the rising sun,
testifying to the brutal energy of a dictator,
their scrotums bloated like calabashes

Diseased toes trampled on the
olive leaf once held aloof by sane comedians.
Banners praised the guards of the doorposts of hell.

Their aura smells foul —
Squatting boys —tied tail to tail for

......

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