Response to Lyambee Aorabee’s “Faisal”

Adaeze

1.
Adaeze
the things
kola nut does
to elders
it does to elders.
a child does not
talk about
his father’s zippers.
the mother can
because
she has drank, gulped
and spat a gob of snow
from his piss pot
and that is where
you came from
2.
when you become a women
you will drink, gulp
and swallow
the snow of a man
to make him feel good
the rest will drip from
your thighs
you will feel good
and you will be
quiet
when children
talk of the wrath
of zippers.

leonell