this Country can kill you, but first, they will
spot the white and crease the cotton of your clothes –
and even split a seam and slash a slit, if you let them –
a second before you encounter your in-law the first time.
– Around North Kaneshie: Saturday, 22nd April, 2023.
this Country can kill you, but first, they must
flush the life and drain the juice, from your lungs and brain,
and lavishly waste these on basic-s that plain sense or plainer
old conscience – or a mere click – can solve or save – avert, even.
this Country can kill you, but first, they must
stealth and steal away the water you have stocked in your
cheek pockets, in wait for harmattan – after they rain fire
and worse on your neighbour’s house, and then turn to yours…
– Mempeasem, Accra, Ghana: Tuesday, 29th December, 2022.
this Country will kill you, and you need not first
wrong or provoke them, or offend or poke them – it is
enough crime and just punishment to be daring enough,
to be lucky enough, to be born in them, or by them – just this.
– East Legon, Accra, Ghana
Thursday, 6th April, 2023.
Love,
AishaWrites.
Nu kɛ Hulu (Water and Sun) 