Champagnes and Cocktails
We too have champagnes
champagnes against diseases
champagnes of dead drugs
things dangerous but fit somehow
probably for a slow something
We too have cocktails in plenty
cocktails of dead body covers
cocktails of dead shirts, shoes, bras
dead, buried, resurrected for us
probably for a slow something
Champagnes, cocktails
fake, duplicate, cheap for charities
second hand, third hand, last hand
all stretch their legs towards Africa
probably for a slow something
How can the originals be here?
industries driven underground
all roads point towards somewhere
all railways run towards somewhere
all telephones ring via somewhere
Things undesirably desirable
with foreign ghosts hovering
pile up as champagnes, cocktails
here in the land of Africa
Copyright © Solomon Ochwo-Oburu | Year Posted 2017
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