PUBLISHED: OH BUTTERFLY: poetry


Oh butterfly 

One thing I didn't know,
that demons and angels in my city 
wore iro and buba,
Fila and sokoto.
Oh butterfly 
Why didn't you tell me?
you flap so near these dresses 
and know the scent of white blood cells.

Or art thou too beautiful to wait 
to sniff all of our devils and goodnesses?
you only love flowers,
selfish thing!
Your quiet flap
torments me in a foreign 
gut! 
oh be gone! 
ma lo - leave

or teach me how to fly
in such elegance as thee
away from these bile-honey filled 
skeletons


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