The Chin-Chin Seller Poem by Joshua Adeyemi

His voice was bore by the
The gentle breeze's rythm:
'Buy your Chin-Chin here',
His voice tuned like the radio's ear.

Perhaps he'd made sale,
None could discern by his face,
Glazed with weariness-
Sculpt in sweat. But with relentlessness.

Then Sooner, a man approached him-
Dread lock, Boxy suit and contrast collar on him.
The elated seller, spoke to his patronizer:
'Welcome sir, it's just fifty naira.'

And then the man collected one,
Looked at him, like on sanity worn,
Lossed to folly and ill acts. Then
He broke, one, two, three- less regarding the mouth-agape men.

The battered seller just looked on,
Hand-folded: People urging him to have the man torn.
But rather he feasted his eyes on him,
As he continued till he looked at him.

Then after ten chin-chin broken:
For each are tied in a nylon thin.
As if bewitched he'd stopped his folly,
And abruptly halt the movie.

The curious crowd grazing their eyes on him:
Next line of action they would love to see.
And then the man brought out and to the hand-folded seller gave 100 dols.
That's what patience does.
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Poet's Note:
The seller as portrayed by the poet happens to be a man of patience (who knows if he's
drafting someone ill to do against the buyer) .
It has happened that, the seller had hardly made sale that day when a man dressed cooperate walks up to him and collects his
chin and started breaking them one after the other. The seller folded his arm and continued looking at the man, perhaps he's
thinking of something to do.
Passers-by urges him to beat up the buyer but he just keeps on looking, perhaps with the impression of, try one more and i'll kill you. But towards the exhaust of his patience, the man who breaks the chin chin brings out 100 dols(35,700 naira)and gives
to the seller for his patience.
Have patience to the last end, it does help.