Jos

Imageries of tribal stench
Streets stretched in stray bullets
Carcasses charred in church
Women slit in the dark
A conglomerate of conference table
Littered with  coffee and curfew
Monkeys mourning
Centre crawling
Sentiments sighing
Jos, a shadow.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2011

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September 6, 2011 at 9:37 PM
Good one Awoh...very dark!!! fav!!!!!
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