Best Resorts Poems

The Funeral of Tinapa,

Conference table littered with chicken and cockroach laps

A keg of palm wine descending from Adia Abo

Grabbers haggling on sharing formula
Emporiums rust and rats
Shopping mulls moaning
A banner of hypocrisies at the gate’ welcome to Tinapa’
Uniform of incompetence in the helm of decisions,

Tribal perfectionists...

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There's an upside to an All Inclusive Resort

But there's also a downside to an All Inclusive Resort

Young'uns are able to drink until they go blind

Absolutely bonkers, losing all sense of reality

Running amok into the wee small hours

Staggering up and down the halls yelling

Knocking on doors...

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Here at our rooftop, collegiate, ‘resort of the mind,’
an early heatwave has struck - we’ve been advised.
Like we needed it. It’s 94°f and climbing - we’re not insensitive.
We’re aware that the sun is bright and the air is crisp and hot.
It was Friday morning, until...

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