The number of its fragments when a life is broken,
The partition of heart for the system file of wishes,
The decor of the recycle bin for the remains of dreams,
Congregation of despair with multiple ancestries,
The lawful reason a soul cannot switch allegiance,
Two impossible things for a heart in love,
The love pangs of ghosts for their wives in flesh,
How a corpse would cope with years of idleness,
How all the dreams in a cemetery can form a union,
What a dead man would do with the talent of Einstein,
What Shakespeare would have done if pursued by a bear,
What Aristotle would have written if he was born in a ghetto,
How a tree would grieve if it skips the season of flowering,
How a tree that loves another tree would pass the message,
The regimen of diet for a baobab to lose its weight,
How a bird would write its biography in the library of the forest,
How a penguin views the question of incest among the goats,
The opinion of veteran birds on the flying style of butterflies,
If Nero would have granted Jesus a state pardon,
The number of men in jail for a crime against themselves,
The inventory of innocent heads in the clientele of death,
The mental state of a river a day before it floods,
Seventeen ways a penitent dog consoles its master,
How to persuade the Pope to absolve the sin of Adam,
How a pain adjusts its calling when its victim is dead,
How many of his worries are still awake when a man is sleeping.
How to cure the pestilence of hope among the hopeless,
How to make an umbrella open a rainless year,
Picket of shadows persuading the sun to down its tool,
Skeletons of hymns mottling the past participle of joy,
Sedimentary sadness over a kilometre of life,
The relative distance between the ground and low spirits,
How with the tears of a crocodile one can wash his conscience,
The philosophical weakness of heaven without the devil,
How to build salvation without the raw material of sin,
How to immobilize the devil by speaking in tongues,
How to master the affection for things that don’t exist,
Combat with illiterate demons without a language,
Illegal immigrants among the dead, angels without a visa,
What the months are doing when they wait on a queue,
How a day would panic for the duration of an eclipse,
What time does with all the carcasses of years it files away,
How to hack the password of evil in the system of mind,
How to encrypt a dream with software and gadget of silence,
The avian pretensions of bats when they hang their heads,
The rising pang of hunger for sex in old people’s home,
The craving for distances among the jailed,
The failed attempt by a black cloth to instigate a night,
How to wash the night that lingers on the body of the elephant,
How to trick the harmattan out of December, or the he-goat out of buffoonery,
The best way to rob the nose of its habitual show-off,
How to multiply two things without their consent,
A thousand ways to sing twenty love songs when out of love,
Joint sovereignty of Siamese emotions, polygamy of longings,
Several ways to start a war over a null hypothesis,
Whether Opalaba would have agreed to share a room with Zeno,
Whether Plato would have let the poet be if he had opted to be a carpenter.
Kunle Okesipe (20th century) Nigeria
Source: African Writer
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