Up In Flames



My daughter heard
a Decent Cool-lio smart phone stranger
(with an African sounding name)
give a four fifty one Fahrenheit warning
Some said: the fellow was loco insane
Others said, 
not taking heed was the crux to blame

Mr. O Mgeni
said he saw a sickly pale man,
in an ivory tower,
feverishly delirium shouting

And each time he opened his mouth,
everything went up in flames
When the spit started to gushing out,
it petrol-fyingly 
burned down the calcium frames

Mr. Onyo
sadly viral said,
the charred voting remains
was carbon dust crematory claimed

Some said this stranger
was a Pygmy green card provocateur
Others said this Mgeni fellow
was a temporarily sworn Masai allure

But, I believe 
what my daughter said
Shavola told me: Daddy, 
the burning photo negatives don’t lie!

Each time he opened up his mouth,
everything burst into flames
When the spit started to spray out,
it gaslight-ingly 
burned down the calcium frames

And I bare witness
to what she said 
Mr. O Mgeni avowed:

The 451 Fahrenheit early warning came
Some listened for the ominous, approaching sirens
Others didn’t  ...  too their crying shame

The holographic records retinitis-ously declare:
When the ground-zero man spoke ...
everything not fire retardant 
quarantined,
went up  in a green pyre of flames
Every wouldn’t osteopathic frame

Tho’ the early warning foreign aid came
Nevertheless, the charred voting remains
was hot-white coals     crematory claimed

Copyright © | Year Posted 2018



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Date: 8/15/2018 12:53:00 PM
invitingly mysterious write old man... i remember the oldt soap box criers on the street and in the park... days gone by...
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