Birth place

Kakuri, Kaduna

life is short
not to have a brothel
and a school sharing just one short fence

surrounded
by violent places
yet we don’t swing swords or shoot stray shots

it’s your choice
to go play at Santos
and your mother’s, if you’d eat at night.

etched in gold
graveyard of memories
home to this bull when he was a calf

Tomide Abdul