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AFTERMATH OF NOSTALGIA (a poem by Olaitan Humble)

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the bus is already waiting for me. . .

on the square notice board hung by the
corner of my room, the toy bus. 7pm is when the world gets
out of its madness & 7am is when it returns to it gladly, but
now a face in a crowd of faces suddenly is robbed of
the madness & we suddenly start to seek fingers finding
creative edge, making canvases upon canvases, mapping out
silhouettes upon silhouettes, first in the kitchen with
previously unappealing items; we watch table knives become
palette knives & we are just fine. now bowing in obeisance
to the worship of gadgets is the early morning devotion as they
take us in a new form of guidance round the clock & and over
the shore—the shore of meaningless patterns. we, zoom into
everything zoom-able as they are a brief consolation of a fulfilling
life, make do with the crumbs leftover from our nightmares, for now
all we have is a dream-ridden reality, a reality where glows of
lambency settle down upon each of our faces like the sunset
at winter, & we call it success, how close! we all are happy on our
screens, thanks to our protective screen guards & of course,
our toothbrushes. now we run on our fingers to snap out of
the glosses of this reality. the rebels still hold colors as hostages &
books remain the archenemies at hand

& i am unsurprised because this is the aftermath of nostalgia.

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