Oluwatosin Richard Shiba Aribo

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But the damn thing lies like a fossil in my mind
Cloying,
Fermenting
My senses are off'
...

Eight flaming hours,
The mad angry fire ravaged the
Purple house.
The fire screamed,
...

leaves in my front yard rustle,
I wonder who is coming to see me
Early this morning.
Shiba[2012]
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They keep telling me,
I'm gifted, but that's beside the point
My outbursts are my formula,
To keep despair in abeyance
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Out from shadows thick as forests
Out from boot camps
Out from sinking oil wells
Run on deceit
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Christmas day! bombs came from
Hell into kano, billow after billow the
smoke rose, draped the sun in black.
Nightfall, the Moon didn't bother to come out.
...

Do they receive cold
Flowers in their moist moments?
And do they wander through death
As they did in life?
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A jail house where all corpses
Are warehoused,
A jailhouse of the ship wrecked,
A jailhouse slimey with dragon
...

They wore black'
Painted their teeth black'
Made their faces look long'
Pretending they were mourning'
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Dear, don't you ever leave me alone,
Don't let even the thought cross your mind, for I'll dissolve like the morning
Mist, and the cruel arrow which searches for lonesome hearts will suddenly find me and pierce my heart.
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Waterfalls'
Chandeliers'
Brazilian girls' and
Fast cars,
...

12.

Her rivers lap playfully, teasingly
Beckoning
Dark and fair like lion mane
All men want to go into her gates'
...

14.

I came out of the bathroom
Whistling!
Scrubbing my back with the deep
Blue towel
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A river enjoys its momentum
Between two lands
Whose foundations are one
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My poetry….it is a reply,
A battle cry……...an uppercut,
It is a proof…...a wish…….a statement,
A struggle.
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17.

This world moves at the speed of an
Electric train,
My world floats like a bubble
Bouncing off texcote walls,
...

My poetry? Just simply
my imaginations, fantasies,
thoughts, paranoia, screams,
dreams………..
...

Of course there were
Days
we plundered,
like an army of unthinking adolescents
...

I grew up a normal kid
From a happy family
From a proud country
But that is where it ends,
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I Am Shiba

But the damn thing lies like a fossil in my mind
Cloying,
Fermenting
My senses are off'
I have permitted myself to
Believe
I am intoxicated'
I whirl and swirl in this stupor'
Huh, I prowl in this belief'
In this sky, l spread out my wings
Like the eagle
I am sniffing the under growth
Clawing the trees
Pissing in the corners'
Marking my territory'
I have swollen like the frog'
It's gone deeper than a chore,
It's become my religion
Lord knows
It has settled on my bones'
I cannot be saved
Gushing from self'
I have latched on to this'
I was born into this'
Me and this belief
Siamese till death
I am shiba
I must fight ever for my destiny'

shiba(2010)
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