Tayo Pete Olafioye
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A Carnival of Looters
Missions abroad
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Oh world: we thank you

A Stroke of Hope
Foreward
Tribute to the stealth bomber
At that moment of departure
Let me trot again
Now that I am well
My epitaph - whenever
Confessions of the moral lepers

Arrowheads To My Heart
Monument to madness
Brain-drain in Africa
Feminine mystique
My husband has gone crazy
Who am I?
Siblings
The institute of rumors
Rienhartsen's abduction
Oh Harry

Ogoni's Agonies
Ogoni people, the oil wells
of Nigeria

Parliament of Idiots
One day
Azikiwe's curse
The impeachment

The Fish Rots From the Head
Uganda massacres of 2000
Sierra Leone
Rwanda & Burundi
The music of my heart
I will love you

Ubangiji
Sometimes
My edenic violet
On the retirement of my shoe
Aiyelala

Sorrows of a Town Crier
African envoys
Harmattan Christmas
The workshop of madness
Marital infidelity
Epilogue for tomorrow
Wedding ring
American satire

Grandma's Sun
excerpt from novel

Article
Who Killed Cicero?

Tribute to the stealth bomber

Prostate--
The enemy of Eros
The god of Libido
The son of Aphrodite
Exponential potentate
Supreme power of evil
The prince of darkness
Phallic god unrefined,
Man's most dreaded scourge
Whose malevolent arrow--cancer
Shivers the spine
Most mortal males--
Mere mention alone:
Brands hot iron of fear
On the mind
I salute you!

To know you
Is to smell death.
Or asphyxiate the passages of life.
Silent attacks your mode.
Dry semen, your elixir.
Supreme power of evil
Malevolent prince of darkness
I salute you!
You renege attacks
Where fed-a-right
But they court
Your wrath and pestilence--
Those ignoramuses who offer
Tobacco, snuff, red meat, hot drinks
Carcinogenous beverages and such pollutants
Articles of unfilial hospitality
To your Most Dreaded Eminence--
Through gully channels of the esophagus
You hibernate in ambush
Fast-spreading your tentacles
In the streams of their veins--
Never to forgive
But to launch reprisals
You, the stealth bomber of the physique
I salute you--
Crown prince of decimation
Yes, almighty doctors--
Try to outwit your smartness:
They send their Chemo and radios
To repel your advance.
There you are--
Smiling in waiting,
Knowing, conquest is yours,
However long, the sanitary campaigns,
You will ravage everything--
The phallus and the hospitals
Mere shells of lives before.
But surely,
Physicians are the warriors of courage
They will assassinate your malevolence.

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