Niran Okewole
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Vendor of Dreams
You are a recorder of rag-ridden destinies,
a pimp-impressario.
You sell us phantasies in cloud-packets.
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Abnormalities of view-foresight,insight,
Second sight and all solecisms of seeing-
Called vision.
- Wole Soyinka
...
What does it matter if
today at the round the cleft-lipped doctor
snacked on my innards? Elevenses, my ears!
...
Whatever is, is not.
Sure as the horse pulls the plough,
things wear out. We watch
the heat of things flow out as time
...
Rising to the surface in a sea
of dreams
a forgotten worshipper swims to shore
awash with the debris of
...
Osunfunke, female alter ego of Morpheus,
dips a calabash into the great pond
and offers it to the famished voyager.
"Drink, and replenish your thirst from the
river of dreams. Then wake to act.'
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Niran Okewole Biography
Niran Okewole was born in September 1977. He studied Medicine at the University of Ibadan and thereafter trained as a psychiatrist. His poems have appeared in Mindfire Review, Farafina, African Writing, Africanwriters.com, Saraba and Maple Tree Literary Supplement. He has published a volume of poems titled Logarhythms. He won the MUSON Festival poetry prize in 2002 and 2003, and the Sawubona Musicjam/Berlin Festival poetry prize in 2008.)
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A Vendor of Dreams (After Ben Okri)
Vendor of Dreams
You are a recorder of rag-ridden destinies,
a pimp-impressario.
You sell us phantasies in cloud-packets.
Our favourite dreams are of incidents at
The shrine, masquing with masquerades,
Placating the jealous gods
After all, it is only Lactogen,
a quiet hallucinogen.
Night, and you must pay for the
murdered sleep of the world.
In your best nightmare
you unscrew your head
and hide it under your armpit,
to escape the wrath of creditors.
But you can't keep away the flies.
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