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sọ́kà (a poem by Adedayo Agarau)

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at the forest of horror	we found the dried bones of people's 
children		 a web of forgotten 
clothes; the rustiness
of them, brown shorts
& baby diapers beside 
a dying woman, school uniforms & bags & plastic bottles 

& sandals
& a man whose wife does not recognize
the frame of his body

& a girl, 14, thin with guilt 
breastfeeding a child

in another room,
we found femurs 
the latitude of 
suffering 

tendons of dreams
roasted in calabashes,

blood in plastic containers	echoes raging like voices pleading for salvation 

people whose gods 
did not forsake 
were hacked
with cutlasses

by men
whose children
were hungry 
at home



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