Only at night do I become this weak-boned little boy who falls in love with angels that have skins made of petals, from a flower blossoming in October. I will laugh heartily at a joke and let tears freely draw a smile on my face. I will care less about death, or life, or growing […]

Dear crush – if there’s anything I want to do to you, it’s to look you in the eye hopelessly and watch you look at me too wear smiles on our faces while our hearts cry and all the ‘we should not be doing this’ are the things that our tongues and eyes will do […]

There is a wish to every list Like do not tap my shoulder You palm wine tapper Have you not heard? Farting is a private affair Keep your fingers from your nose It may carry jars of germs No one knows. Your shoes must not invade my private space My stress level aggravates When you […]

my friend was bothered about what people will think if she left her man so she wined and dined with her abuser; and now she’s resting in peace Tomide Abdul

Once we were apes. Our father. Twice, he lived in the woods. He wore leaves as hoods And also our mother, Her arms were strong. But this rite has gone wrong We peeling off the skin that covered us for long. Concealing our true faces after for us the foundation has been laid. The broods, […]

For God, it is man alone. For Samson, it was his hair. For Adam, it was the woman, fair. For Goliath, it was a stone. They fell. Every paradise can become hell. The house of freedom can become a cell. The Tower of Babel would crumple on its own If you can change the tongue […]

It was a hot afternoon And children spread outside Like bees sucking on yellow petals Of beautiful flowers By the river bed. Along the narrow road That ran through the village A mile, a long line of military trucks Carrying soldiers to the east To keep the nation at ease. Three trucks stopped. A handsome […]

goodluck in explaining to a man that his seven-year-old daughter and his twelve-year-old son and his 10-year-old twin are all his children and he is their father but his wife who always preferred to be with her mother whenever she is pregnant because of a long-standing family tradition is not their biological mother for she […]

Let us toast tonight to memories beneath this sheet, let’s intertwine eat drink bite and smooch for by dawn one of us may leave this book so let’s write prose and orgasm Tomide Abdul

If I get lost, find me in fat one’s room– there is no place i’d rather be. 0 i will dance for aunty b she’ll smile and say that she loves me a lot 0 then i’ll sneak at night to be with my butterfly, nectar in my heart until dawn do us part. Younglan […]