Nigeria is a Book of Punchlines (Spokenword)
Adegoke Adeola@adegokeadeola
1 year ago
Nigeria is a Book of Punchlines (Spokenword)
I've written ferocity in the book of death, I shall not die but live!
These words are the sweat of a blunt mechanic,
Naija is failed like the brake pad of a moving vehicle,
I just want to fix it.
My body & bones breaks badly being a bold black broke Naija boy,
Every story ever written here is from the book of history
How a drunk white woman nicknamed a hundred million people
How the leaders traced their roots to the Brits is quite laudable
Apostle preach! This country is plagued with cacuminal disorder
Everything is receding
The bank balance of an ordinary man is too weak,
It can't lift a note
Every paper in Maiduguri looks like money,
I mean in the eyes of the Almajiri boys
Some men with big tummy gathered together
And pronounced us dead, we the people of Nigeria!
Checkmate, I mean check your constitution mate, Have you ever won?
Every page mocks your hope like a failed WAEC paper,
But you can't tear it!
Those who expected us to live as one haven't handled their marriages
Who else goes outside their borders and are rated pirates?
Why else? Naija is a failed state!
The product of multiple plagiarism and not orgasm!
Who else spits on the noun slavery
and call constitutional piracy a form of bravery?
Everytime you pick a bar, this country breaks your verse so you can never make hit again
But this mechanic has been resurrected,
Give me raw words, let me spice it up.
Everytime we tried changing the narratives,
The country calls the story to an abrupt end
Can't you see this vicious cycle,
We're like a programmed television series.
The heads fight terrorism with propaganda
And mob our polling units with military Agbada
Even after the end of Ibrahim Babangida,
This place looks like a forecasted Hausa bet,
Every democratic rulers rule with bullets in their head
So, when the future became gloomy
And the leaders continued looting the loots of Abacha
Young boys here have turned to pure kasala!
No be everybody wey dey stretch arm be beggar
Some don dey stretch arms too, check Berger!
Cock is an adult male bird
Cock is an adult male chicken
Cock is another term for Penis
But everything associated with young males here
is to trigger a firearm
For example, the boy cocked the gun!
They've opened for us a receding future
And until we learn to fight against this culture,
This is the beginning of an end
#poetry #poems
