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the concoction

harvest time
seasons ready to be plucked
and counted
yams moved to the barn
woe
no yams
relatives and friends
registered deceased
the sojourners abroad
ended abroad
news for mine adversaries

many they are
the eighty-year old man
age-haunted eyes
the weary womb
have poisoned the rainfall
thrown spittle in spite
from the bush to the city


Reckoning day
whose hand is the spoiler
of the feast
reluctant for
the clasp of death
vindication acheived


judgement day
let them drink and live
prove their innocence
to the barren land
barren expectations


twenty seven of them
drank and died
litmus test accomplished


leaving us with corpses
mute expressions
a dead body and witnesses...





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