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Idol

Idol is there seated plotting
cowrie shells baptized dollars
cow-hide suffocated with air
comfort women in their best
Cambridge fraternity with honors
commander with his platoons
sky-men in their spaceships
class room wizards with sleepy eye
Champagne , coca cola, carrots

These are the dying gods
that relax on high thrones
intoxicate conscience
roll away the Bible, Quran
and call on humanity
worship me, me, me alone
my kingdom I’ll give to you

Copyright © | Year Posted 2017




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Date: 2/26/2017 8:52:00 AM
"baptized dollars", love it. Love this poem. 7 my friend, the poem reads like a sorrowful sigh xomo
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Solomon Ochwo-Oburu
Date: 2/28/2017 9:22:00 AM
You quake my passion to write poems! Thanks, Maureen

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