At The Bar In Addis Poem by mark nwagwu

At The Bar In Addis



Angels chime his glory!
There's no other black man
at the bar
Is the bar too bad
Or, are blacks too poor
to be at this bar
to drink

Where's my wife
where's Helen

Does she think I'm mad
hopeless?

You know
she's a psychologist
try figuring that out
while she's trying
to figure me out -

Ah I'm a fool
she figured me out
long ago
before i was born
before she was born

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Rani Turton 24 November 2008

This poem is glorious, and has several threads of thought intermingled. Thanks, Prof!

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Ibrahim Sambo 26 September 2008

I like this poem.It largely flows peacefully like water in an ocean.

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Gregory Collins 20 April 2008

i very much like the end, seems to wrap eveything together, great thoughts methinks

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Fred Babbin 05 December 2007

Very touching poem. I have to enter 20 GD characters or this won't get sent.

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